Kosovo

See also: kosovo

English

Location of Kosovo (1) within the Balkans

Kosovo (2) district

Alternative forms

• Kosova (from Albanian)
• Kosov@ (uncommon; blends the Slavic and Albanian spellings)
• Kossovo (obsolete)

Etymology

Shortened form of Serbo-Croatian Косово поље (“blackbirds’ field”), from косово (kosovo), possessive form of кос (kos, “blackbird”), and поље (polje, “field”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒsəvə/, /ˈkɒsəvəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsəˌvoʊ/

Proper noun

Kosovo

2. A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Kosovo. Capital and largest city: Pristina. Considered by the Republic of Serbia to be one of its two autonomous provinces.
   • 1999 March 25, “Air Campaign Against Yugoslavia”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York:

     Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.

   • 2017, Freedom in the world, page 657:

     After Milosevic’s overthrow in October 2000, international pressure on the new authorities in Belgrade to extradict Milosevic for alleged war crimes committed during the Kosovo conflict was intense.

3. One of five administrative districts of the above region as viewed by the Serbian government.

Derived terms

• Kosovan
• Kosovar
• kosovar
• Kosovo and Metohija

 

Translations

disputed region in the Balkans

• Acehnese: Kosovo
• Afrikaans: Kosovo
• Albanian: Kosovë f (indefinite), Kosova (sq) f (definite)
• Amharic: ኮሶቮ (kosovo), ኮሶቮ (kosovo)
• Arabic: كُوسُوفُو f (kūsūfū), قُوصُوُه f (qūṣuwuh)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوسوڤو f (kōsōvō)

  Hijazi Arabic: كوسوڤو f (kōsōvō), كوسوفو f (kōsōfō)

• Aragonese: Kosovo m
• Armenian: Կոսովո (hy) (Kosovo)
• Aromanian: Cusovã f (indefinite), Cusova f (definite)
• Asturian: Kosovo m, Kosovu m
• Aymara: Kusuwu
• Azerbaijani: Kosovo (az)
• Bashkir: Косово (Kosovo)
• Basque: Kosovo (eu)
• Bavarian: Kosovo
• Belarusian: Ко́сава n (Kósava)
• Bengali: কসোভো (bn) (kośōbhō)
• Bikol Central: Kosobo
• Breton: Kosovo
• Bulgarian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo)
• Burmese: ကိုဆိုဗို (kuihcuibui)
• Catalan: Kosovo (ca) m
• Cebuano: Kosobo, Kosovo
• Chechen: Косово (Kosovo)
• Cherokee: ᎪᏗᏉ (godiquo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 科索沃 (fo¹ sok³ juk¹)

  Mandarin: 科索沃 (zh) (Kēsuǒwò)

• Chuvash: Косово (Kos̬ovo)
• Cornish: Kosova
• Crimean Tatar: Kosovo
• Czech: Kosovo (cs) n
• Danish: Kosovo n
• Dutch: Kosovo (nl) n
• Esperanto: Kosovo (eo)
• Estonian: Kosovo (et)
• Extremaduran: Cosovu
• Farefare: Kosovo
• Faroese: Kosovo
• Finnish: Kosovo (fi)
• French: Kosovo (fr) m, Cossovo m
• Gagauz: Kosova
• Galician: Kosovo (gl) m
• Georgian: კოსოვო (ka) (ḳosovo)
• German: Kosovo (de) m or n
• Greek: Κόσοβο n (Kósovo), Κοσσυφοπέδιο (el) n (Kossyfopédio, literally “Blackbird Field”)
• Greenlandic: Kosovo
• Guaraní: Kosovo
• Hebrew: קוֹסוֹבוֹ (he) f (kosovo)
• Hindi: कोसोवो (hi) m (kosovo)
• Hungarian: Koszovó (hu)
• Icelandic: Kosóvó
• Ido: Kosovo
• Indonesian: Kosovo
• Interlingua: Kosovo
• Irish: an Chosaiv f, Cosaiv f
• Italian: Kosovo m, Kossovo m, Cossovo m
• Japanese: コソボ (ja) (Kosobo) コソヴォ (ja) (Kosovo)
• Javanese: Kosovo
• Kabardian: Косово (Kʷosovo)
• Kabyle: Kosovo
• Kannada: ಕೊಸೊವೊ (kosovo)
• Kazakh: Косово (kk) (Kosovo)
• Khmer: កូសូវ៉ូ (km) (kousouvou)
• Korean: 코소보 (ko) (Kosobo), 꼬쏘보 (ko) (kkossobo) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆسۆڤۆ (ckb) (kosovo)

  Northern Kurdish: Kosova (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Косово (Kosovo)
• Lak: Косова (Kosowa)
• Lao: ໂກໂຊໂວ (kō sō wō)
• Latin: Kosovia f
• Latvian: Kosova f
• Limburgish: Kosovo (li)
• Lithuanian: Kosovas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Kosovo (lb)
• Macedonian: Косово n (Kosovo)
• Malay: Kosovo
• Malayalam: കൊസോവോ (kosōvō)
• Maltese: Kosovo (mt) m, Kosova
• Manx: Kosovo
• Maori: Kotopo
• Marathi: कोसोव्हो (kosovho)
• Mazanderani: کوزوو, کوسوو
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Косово (mn) (Kosovo)

• Nahuatl: Cosovo
• Nauruan: Kosovo
• North Frisian: Kosovo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kosovo (no) n

  Nynorsk: Kosovo (nn) n

• Occitan: Kosovë, Kosovo (oc), Kosova
• Ossetian: Косово (Kosovo)
• Papiamentu: Kosovo
• Persian:

  Dari: کوسُوَا (kōsuwā)

  Iranian Persian: کوسوو (kosovo), کوزوو (kozovo)

• Picard: Kosovo
• Piedmontese: Kosovo m
• Polish: Kosowo (pl) n
• Pontic Greek: Κόσοβο (Kósovo)
• Portuguese: Cosovo m, Kosovo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਕੋਸੋਵੋ (kosovo)
• Quechua: Kusuwu, Kosovo, Kosova
• Romanian: Kosovo
• Romansch: Cosovo
• Russian: Ко́сово (ru) n (Kósovo)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Kosovo
• Samoan: Kosovo
• Sardinian: Kòssovu
• Saterland Frisian: Kosovo
• Scots: Kosovo
• Scottish Gaelic: Cosobho
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ко̏сово n

  Roman: Kȍsovo (sh) n

• Shona: Kosovo
• Sicilian: Kòssuvu m
• Silesian: Kosowo
• Sinhalese: කොසෝවො (kosōwo)
• Slovak: Kosovo n
• Slovene: Kosovo n
• Somali: Kosofo
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Kosowo

  Upper Sorbian: Kosowo

• Spanish: Kosovo (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: Kosovokondre
• Sundanese: Kosovo
• Swahili: Kosovo
• Swedish: Kosovo (sv) n
• Tagalog: Kosovo
• Tajik: Косово (Kosovo)
• Tamil: கொசோவோ (kocōvō)
• Tatar: Косово (Qosowo)
• Thai: โคโซโว (koo-soo-woo), คอซอวอ (th) (kɔɔ-sɔɔ-wɔɔ)
• Tibetan: ཁོ་སོ་ཝོ (kho so wo)
• Turkish: Kosova (tr)
• Turkmen: Kosowo
• Ukrainian: Ко́сово n (Kósovo)
• Urdu: کوسووُ m (kosovu), کوسووَہ m (kosova)
• Uyghur: كوسوۋو (kosowo)
• Uzbek: Kosovo
• Venetan: Kósovo, Cosovo, Kosovo
• Vietnamese: Cô-xô-vô
• Võro: Kosovo
• Waray-Waray: Kosovo
• Welsh: Cosofo
• West Flemish: Kosovo
• West Frisian: Kosovo
• Yakut: Косова (Kosova)
• Yiddish: קאָסאָוואָ (kosovo)
• Yoruba: Kósófò
• Zealandic: Kosovo

See also

• Kosovo and Metohia

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• Kosovaar
• Kosovaars

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/, [koˈso.β̞o]

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Cóssova
• Cóssovo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈko.su.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈko.so.vo]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Crimean Tatar

Proper noun

Kosovo

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkosovo]

Proper noun

Kosovo n (related adjective kosovský, demonym Kosovan)

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Kosovo
genitive	Kosova
dative	Kosovu
accusative	Kosovo
vocative	Kosovo
locative	Kosovu
instrumental	Kosovem

Further reading

• “Kosovo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Kosovo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Ко̏сово/Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.soːˌvoː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo n (adjective Kosovaars, demonym Kosovaar m or Kosovaarse f)

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔsovo/, (rarer also) /ˈkɔzovo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

der/das Kosovo m or n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Kosovo or des Kosovos)
Kosovo n (proper noun, genitive Kosovos or (optionally with an article) Kosovo)

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, masculine // neuter, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der, das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovo, Kosovos
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	den, das	Kosovo

Declension of Kosovo [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Kosovo
genitive	des	Kosovos, Kosovo1
dative	dem	Kosovo
accusative	das	Kosovo

¹Optionally with an article.

Related terms

• Kosovare
• kosovarisch
• Kosovo-Albaner

Italian

Alternative forms

• Kossovo, Cossovo (dated)
• Kosova f (uncommon)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.so.vo/, /koˈsɔ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɔsovo, -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: Kò‧so‧vo, Ko‧sò‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovaro

Lithuanian

Noun

Kòsovo

1. genitive singular of Kòsovas (“Kosovo”)

Maltese

Proper noun

Il-Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Serbo-Croatian Kȍsovo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vu/, /ˈko.zo.vu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈzo.vo/, /ˈko.zo.vo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɔˈzo.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɔˈzo.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɔˈzo.bu/ [kɔˈzo.βu]

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Alternative form of Cosovo: Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• kosovar

Romanian

Proper noun

Kosovo n

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kôsoʋo/
• Hyphenation: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kȍsovo n (Cyrillic spelling Ко̏сово)

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Declension

Declension of Kosovo

	singular
nominative	Kosovo
genitive	Kosova
dative	Kosovu
accusative	Kosovo
vocative	Kosovo
locative	Kosovu
instrumental	Kosovom

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈsobo/ [koˈso.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: Ko‧so‧vo

Proper noun

Kosovo m

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Derived terms

• kosovar

 

Swedish

Proper noun

Kosovo n (genitive Kosovos)

1. Kosovo (A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)

Related terms

• kosovan
• kosovansk
• kosovanska

Further reading

• Kosovo in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)
• Svensk MeSH