Bosnia
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bosnia in British English:
UK [ˈbɔzniə]
How to pronounce Bosnia in American English:
US [ˈbɑzniə]
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- Noun:
- a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to
Word Origin
- 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).
Example
- 1. Bosnia has spent five years moving backwards .
- 2. The stirring of renewed secessionist sentiments in bosnia does the same .
- 3. In principle the reforms demanded by brussels should strengthen bosnia 's weak state institutions .
- 4. This muslim town was destroyed during fighting between croatian and muslim forces in central bosnia .
- 5. The no-fly zone over bosnia did not stop the massacre at srebrenica in 1995 .