serbism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "In the meantime, Serb professors and diplomats were affirming the integral Serbism of Bulgarian Macedonia, and thus peacefully paving the way for war."
- ""A battle lost to the Bulgarians in Macedonia will be for Serbia and Serbism the Kosovo Battle lost a second time round."
- "Only a small group of scholars has made intellectuals and their national ideas the object of their analyses, and they examine principally the evolving visions of ‘Yugoslavism’, the various understandings of ‘Serbism’ and the complementarity and tensions between these two identitities^([sic – meaning identities]).⁸"
- "His Yugoslavism was replaced by a version of Serbism, according to which the Serbs should strive for a predominantly Serb state, at the same time preserving Serb national identity of all the Serbs forced, by foreign powers, to live outside that state.¹⁹"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ Serbo-Croatian Срби /Srbider. English Serb Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English Serbism From Serb + -ism.