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Video: Serbian female names. History and meaning
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55
Serbian female names impress with their diversity. They not only sound beautiful: each female name is filled with a special meaning and has several abbreviated versions. A feature of Serbian names is the ability to indicate any version of them in documents.
Pagan origin
Serbs often gave the child a name that carried the function of "protection". It was a superstitious people, and the parents tried to protect the baby from evil spirits by naming him in a special way.
Serbian female names of that time and their meaning: Gordana (proud), Tiyana (peace), Bojdena, Boyana (battle). Girls were also named according to their personal character traits, they were given names denoting animals, plants, berries: Senka (shadow), Dzhegoda (strawberry, berry), Srebryanka (silver), Milica (sweet), Slavitsa (glorious), Vedrana (funny), Deyana (Enterprising).
Christian origins
In the second half of the 19th century, Christianity came to Serbia from Byzantium. From that time on, residents had to call their children at birth only by canonical names that had a church purpose. In origin, they were mostly ancient Greek or Roman of the early Christian era.
Girls of steelcall: Sofia (wisdom), Natalia, Natasha (Church Christmas), Jovana (good God), Angela (angel), Militsa (sweet), Iva (from the Slavs “willow tree”), Slavna (magnificent), Valeria (strong), Snezhana (woman of snow), Yana (pardoned by God), Anna (God's mercy) and so on.
Canonical names have taken root for quite a long time among Serbs, who are used to naming children in their native language.
After 1945, the choice of names became free. This was facilitated by the establishment of socialism throughout Serbia. At this time, names based on their own vocabulary appear.
Features of education
Serbian female names in 20% of cases are formed with the suffix "ka". In Russian, this suffix gives the word a derogatory connotation, but in Serbia it does not carry any lexical load: Zhivka, Slavyanka, Zdravka, Milinka. In female names, there are also suffixes "ina", "ana", "itsa" (Snezhana, Yasmina, Slavitsa, Lilyana, Zoritsa). All Serbian female names end in "a".
Girls who were born in noble families were given names consisting of two roots - Dregoslav, Radmila, Negoslav, Negomir. But they were rare, since the compound name was given mainly to a man.
Modernity
The most common beautiful Serbian female names in our time: Teodora, Jovana, Iva, Yana, Tatiana, Sara, Katarina, Sofia, Maria, Angela. Some of them are borrowed when naming daughters in other countries.
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