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BOSNIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of Bosnia-Herzegovina or the people of Bosnia
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Bosnia-Herzegovina (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 rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims)
Derivation:
Bosnia (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 rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims)
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