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Bosnia [boz-nee-uh] Examples noun
- a historic region in SE Europe: a former Turkish province; a part of Austria-Hungary (1879–1918) now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Related formsBos·ni·an, adjective Examples from the Web for bosnian Contemporary Examples of bosnian
He was referring to the genocide of Muslims during the Bosnian War.
When Countries Lose Their Shit Over American Movies
Asawin Suebsaeng
December 17, 2014
I remember the days of the Bosnian war (1992—1995), when Saudi Arabia sent convoys of aid to those besieged in Sarajevo.
Saudi Activist Manal Al-Sharif on Why She Removed the Veil
Manal Al Sharif, Advancing Human Rights
October 30, 2014
Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by the Bosnian Serb army.
Serbia and Croatia’s Competing Genocide Claims
Adam LeBor
March 11, 2014
Unlike Germany post 1945, there has been no official admission of wrongdoing from the Bosnian Serbs since the war has ended.
The Bosnia Atrocities, the World’s Greatest Forensic Puzzle
J.P. O’Malley
December 1, 2013
But the concluding chapter in the story of the Bosnian War has yet to be written.
The Bosnia Atrocities, the World’s Greatest Forensic Puzzle
J.P. O’Malley
December 1, 2013
Historical Examples of bosnian
It was from the west, from the Bosnian side, that the actual attack was made.
The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII)
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Originally of Bosnian extraction, they are spread not only in Croatia, but also in Hungary.
Frederick Shoberl
Next, Ms. having left the hospital, the Bosnian approached me.
Alan Bott
I replenished my pouch with a Bosnian tobacco which is by no means so good as that of Macedonia.
Louis Figuier
Probably the Bosnian issue of 1906 is the finest in this matter.
Stanley Currie Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for bosnian Bosnian adjective
- of or relating to Bosnia or its inhabitants
noun
- a native or inhabitant of Bosnia
- the language spoken in Bosnia-Herzegovina, formerly regarded as a dialect of Serbo-Croatian
usage The Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian languages were regarded as dialects of Serbo-Croat before the three countries emerged as independent states in the 1990s. Some linguists still refer to a single Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BHS) language; however, the more common practice is to treat Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian as separate languages, even though they are mutually intelligible. Many Montenegrins refer to their language as ‘Serbian’, though there is also a movement to rename it ‘Montenegrin’. The terms Serbo-Croat and Serbo-Croatian are no longer commonly used, though they are preserved in this dictionary when historically correct, such as the derivation of a word from Serbo-Croat before Bosnia separated from Yugoslavia. Bosnia noun
- a region of central Bosnia-Herzegovina: belonged to Turkey (1463–1878), to Austria-Hungary (1879–1918), then to Yugoslavia (1918–91)
Word Origin and History for bosnian Bosnia
named for the River Bosna, which is perhaps from an Indo-European root *bhog- “current.” As a name or adjective for someone there, Bosnian (1788) is older in English than Bosniac (1836, from Russian Bosnyak).