C2 — proficientculture35 words
Allusions & cultural references
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Kȍsovo | Kosovo (a territory; in culture, the 1389 battle and its epic cycle) |
| Kȍsovskī bȏj | the Battle of Kosovo (1389, the subject of an epic cycle) |
| Vȉdovdan | St Vitus’s Day (Vidovdan, 28 June; the day of the Battle of Kosovo) |
| cȁr Lázar | Tsar Lazar, Prince Lazar (killed at the Battle of Kosovo, epic hero) |
| Mȉloš Òbilić | Miloš Obilić (the Kosovo epic hero said to have killed the sultan) |
| Kȍsōvka dèvōjka | the Maiden of Kosovo (the epic song’s figure of mercy) |
| Mȃjka Jȕgovīćā | the Mother of the Jugovići (the epic image of a mother’s grief) |
| Mȃrko Kràljević | Prince Marko, Marko Kraljević (the hero of Serbian epic song) |
| hàjdūk | an outlaw rebel (a hajduk of Ottoman times, a hero of folk epic) |
| Karàđōrđe | Karađorđe (Đorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising of 1804) |
| Pȑvī sȓpskī ùstanak | the First Serbian Uprising (1804, against Ottoman rule) |
| Svȇtī Sáva | Saint Sava (the first Serbian archbishop, patron of schools) |
| Hilàndar | Hilandar (the Serbian monastery on Mount Athos, founded in the twelfth century) |
| Stùdenica | Studenica (the medieval monastery in Serbia, a UNESCO World Heritage site) |
| Bȇlī ȃnđeo | the White Angel (the fresco at Mileševa monastery) |
| Nìkola Tȅsla | Nikola Tesla (the inventor; Belgrade airport bears his name) |
| Mihàjlo Pùpin | Mihajlo Pupin (the physicist who worked on telephony in the US) |
| Milùtin Milánković | Milutin Milanković (the astronomer behind the theory of the ice ages) |
| Nòvāk Đȍković | Novak Đoković (the tennis player; often simply Nole) |
| Crvèna zvézda | Red Star Belgrade, Red Star (the Belgrade sports club) |
| Partìzan | a Partisan (a fighter in Tito’s forces, 1941–1945); Partizan, a Belgrade sports club (its fans are grobari) |
| vȅčitī dȅrbi | the eternal derby (Red Star against Partizan) |
| ìnāt | spite, defiant stubbornness |
| gȕsle | the gusle (a one-stringed bowed instrument; plural in Serbian) |
| slȁva | slava (a family patron saint’s day); glory, fame (less often) |
| ćirìlica | the Cyrillic script, Cyrillic alphabet (one of Serbian’s two) |
| Drína | the Drina (the river on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Àvala | Avala (the hill outside Belgrade with its TV tower) |
| Àda Cigànlija | Ada Ciganlija (Belgrade’s river island and beach; Ada for short) |
| Knȇz Mihàilova | Knez Mihailova (Belgrade’s main pedestrian street) |
| Teràzije | Terazije (a square in central Belgrade; plural only); in lower case, terazije, scales (an old word) |
| Đèrdap | the Iron Gates (Đerdap gorge) |
| òpānci | opanci (traditional leather shoes with an upturned toe; singular opanak) |
| šàjkača | a šajkača (the traditional Serbian cap with a V-shaped crown) |
| šljȉvovica | plum brandy, plum rakija, slivovitz |
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