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Slavic

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈslɑːvɪk/
  • /ˈslævɪk/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈslɑːvɪk/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈslavɪk/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑːvɪk
  • CMU ARPABET: S L AA1 V IH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of the Slavs, their cultures, or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective

Meaning 3

of or relating to Slavic languages

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Slavonic

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic

Narrower terms: Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic, Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Russian, Belarusian, Byelorussian, White Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Slovene, Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian, Sorbian, Lusatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

History

Etymology

Etymology tree substrateder.? Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.? Proto-Slavic *slov- Proto-Slavic *-ǫta Proto-Slavic *Slov-? Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Ancient Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor. Medieval Latin Sclāvusbor. Middle English Sclave English Slav Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English Slavic From Slav + -ic. Piecewise doublet of slavey.

Across languages

Translations

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Slawies — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Albanian: sllav — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Arabic: سْلَافِيّ (slāfiyy) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Arabic: صَقْلَبِيّ (ṣaqlabiyy) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Arabic: سلاڤي (slāvi) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Armenian: սլավոնական (slavonakan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Azerbaijani: slavyan — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Belarusian: славя́нскі (slavjánski) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Bengali: স্লাভিক (slabhik) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Bengali: স্লাভীয় (slabhiẏo) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Bulgarian: славя́нски (slavjánski) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Burmese: ဆလဗ (hca.la.ba.) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый (slavjánskŷj) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Catalan: eslau — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Chinese Cantonese: 斯拉夫 (si1 laai1 fu1) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Chinese Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (sīlāfū) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Cree: slovenski — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Czech: slovanský — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Danish: slavisk — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Dutch: Slavisch — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Esperanto: slava — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Estonian: slaavi — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Finnish: slaavilainen — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • French: slave — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • French: slavon — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Friulian: slâf — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Galician: eslavo — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Georgian: სლავური (slavuri) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • German: slawisch — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Greek: σλαυικός (slavikós) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Greek: σλαβικός (slavikós) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hawaiian: Selawika — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hawaiian: ʻōlelo Selawika — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hebrew: סְלָאבִי (slávi) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hindi: स्लाव (slāv) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hindi: स्लावी (slāvī) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Hungarian: szláv — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Icelandic: slavískur — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Irish: Slavach — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Irish: Slavónach — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Italian: slavo — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Japanese: スラヴ (suravu) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Japanese: スラブ (surabu) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Kashubian: słoviński — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Kazakh: славян (slavän) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Kazakh: славяндық (slavändyq) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Khmer: ស្លាវ (slaaw) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Khmer: ស្លាវី (slaavii) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Komi-Permyak: славян (slavʹan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Komi-Zyrian: славян (slavan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Korean: 슬라브 (seullabeu) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Northern Kurdish: slavî — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Kyrgyz: славян (slavyan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Kyrgyz: славяндык (slavyandık) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Latvian: slāvu — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Latvian: slāvisks — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Lithuanian: slavų — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Lithuanian: slaviškas — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Macedonian: словенски (slovenski) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Mongolian: славян (slavjan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Norwegian Bokmål: slavisk — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Church Slavic: словѣньскъ (slověnĭskŭ) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Pashto: سلاو (sláw) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Pashto: اسلاو (esláw) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Persian: اسلاو (eslâv) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Polish: słowiański — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Portuguese: eslavo — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Portuguese: eslávico — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Romanian: slavon — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Romanian: slavonesc — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Romanian: slav — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Russian: славя́нский (slavjánskij) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: сло̀ве̄нскӣ — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: сло̀вје̄нскӣ — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: сла̀ве̄нскӣ — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: slòvēnskī — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: slòvjēnskī — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Serbo-Croatian: slàvēnskī — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Sicilian: slavu — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Silesian: słowjański — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Slovak: slovanský — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Slovene: slovánski — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Lower Sorbian: słowjański — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Upper Sorbian: słowjanski — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Spanish: eslavo — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Swedish: slavisk — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Tagalog: Eslabo — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Tajik: славян (slavyan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Tatar: славян (slawyan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Thai: สลาฟ (sà-láaf) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Turkish: Slav — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Turkmen: slawýan — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Udmurt: славян (slavan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (slovʺjánsʹkyj) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Urdu: سلاو (slāv) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Urdu: سلاوی (slāvī) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان (silawiyan) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Uzbek: slavyan — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Vietnamese: Xla-vơ — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Welsh: Slafaidd — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • Yiddish: סלאַוויש (slavish) — of the Slavs, their culture or languages
  • German: Slawisch — Translations
Real reading context

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