Serbianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Serb +‎ -ian or Serbia +‎ -an.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)biːən/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA: /ˈsəːbɪjən/

形容詞

Serbian (comparative more Serbian, superlative most Serbian)

1. Of or pertaining to Serbia, the Serbian people or their language.
   • 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2021:

     Tuesday’s ICJ ruling relates specifically to what Serbian forces did in Croatia between 1991 and 1995.

派生語

名詞

Serbian (countable and uncountable, plural Serbians)

1. (countable) A native or inhabitant of Serbia.
   • 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2021:

     The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there.

2. (countable) A Serb.
3. (uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs.
4. (historical) Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Serbia.

使用する際の注意点

A distinction is often made between Serbian (“a person from Serbia”) and Serb (“a person of Serb ethnicity not necessarily from Serbia”).

派生語

• Serb
• Serbianness

形容詞

Serbian (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Serbia and Serbians.
   • 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman‎:

     In a raucous atmosphere, it was an unforgiving and physical contest from the start. Grant Hanley conceded the first free-kick within the opening 20 seconds, setting the tone for a busy and thankless evening for Serbian referee Milorad Mazic.

2. Of or pertaining to Serbian language.

派生語

関連する語

• Serbia
• Serbo-Croatian

参考

• Appendix:Alphabets#Serbian (Roman)
• Appendix:Alphabets#Serbian (Cyrillic)
• Serbian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Serbian Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Serbian

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code sr, ISO 639-3 code srp (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Serbian, srp ⁠

アナグラム

• inbears, Ben Sira, braines, bears in, brinase, barnies