Serbn.adj.

Brit.

/səːb/, U.S.

/sərb/

Forms: 1600s–1700s Serbe, 1700s– Serb.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Serbe.

Etymology: In sense A. 1 < German Serbe, noun (1556 or earlier in this sense) < Upper Sorbian Serb , noun (plural Serbja ) and its cognate Lower Sorbian Serb , noun (plural Serby ), self-designations (both < the same Slavonic base as Serbian Srbi (see below)), perhaps partly via post-classical Latin Serbi , Serbii , plural noun (1552 or earlier in this sense; probably partly < Sorbian and partly < the Latin name of the Balkan people (see below)). Compare French Serbe , noun and adjective (1712 or earlier in this sense). Compare later Sorb n.² Compare Wend n. 1. In sense A. 2 < German Serbe, noun (1562 or earlier in this sense) < post-classical Latin Serbi , Serbii , Serbli , plural noun (1540 or earlier in this sense) < Serbian Srbi , plural noun (Old Serbian Srĭbi , Srĭbli , with -l- in the latter form a common phonological development in Slavonic between a labial consonant and a following front vowel: compare Kremlin n.), Srbin , singular noun (Old Serbian Srĭbinĭ , Srĭblinĭ ), a self-designation < a Slavonic base of uncertain origin (perhaps cognate with Polish pasierb stepson, Old Church Slavonic srĭbanije food (see absorb v.)). Compare French Serbe , noun and adjective (1772 or earlier in this sense). Compare earlier Serbian n., Serbian adj.Compare Byzantine Greek Σέρβλοι , plural noun (10th cent. with reference to a people living in the Balkans; also in the same source with reference to a people living in an unspecified region (possibly corresponding to Bohemia or Lusatia) north of the Carpathians and east of the Kingdom of the East Franks), also Σέρβοι > post-classical Latin Servii , plural noun (1509 or earlier with reference to the Balkans, later extended to Lusatian contexts; compare Sorb n.²). Compare German †Serve, noun (1544 or earlier with reference to Lusatia, 1590 or earlier with reference to the Balkans; < Latin). Compare French †Serve, noun and adjective (1703 or earlier with reference to the Balkans).

A. n.

1. = Sorb n.² 1. Now frequently in Lusatian Serb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Wends or Sorbs > person

Serb1695

Wend1786

Sorbian1836

Wendian1838

Sorb1843

Sorabian1851

1695 J. Crull tr. S. von Pufendorf Introd. Hist. Principal Kingdoms Europe viii. 284 This Henry [sc. Henry I of Germany], also did Conquer the Serbes [perh. read Sorbes; Ger. 1683, 1705 Sorben, L. 1687 Sorbes] and Wendes, a Sarmatick or Sclavonian Nation, who..possessed of a large Tract of Land in Germany, on the River Elbe.

1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North iii. vii. 472 There are also some names of these tribes which are original; as for example, the Sorbs, or Serbs, the Tschechs, or Bohemians.

1813 Q. Rev. 10 283 The Serbs or Wends came about the same time into the countries between the Saal and the Oder.

1919 P. R. Radosavljevich Who are Slavs? I. iv. 119 The resentment of the Lusation [sic] Serbs (or Wends as the Germans call them) toward the Teutonic settlers was reasonable.

1997 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 24 Jan. b1 The Wends, who also were known as Sorbs or Serbs, chose to settle in Australia and Texas.

2004 S. Halperin War & Social Change in Mod. Europe v. 162 The postwar settlement left Danes and Lusatian Serbs in Germany; Basques and Catalonians in Spain; [etc.]

a. A native or inhabitant of Serbia, a country in south-eastern Europe; (in some historical contexts) a member of a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe during the seventh cent. a.d. Also: a person of Serbian heritage or descent. Cf. Bosnian Serb n. and adj. at Bosnian n. and adj. Compounds.See also the note at Serbian n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Serbia > [noun]

Serbian1555

Serb1799

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. ii. 454 The third slavonian nation within the borders of Russia, are the Servians or Serbes, a branch of the illyrian Slavi.

1830 C. Fraser Hist. War in Bosnia 86 This country's vicinity to the infidel nations, such as the deceitful Germans, Hungarians, Serbs (Sclavonians), the tribes of Croats, and the Venetians.

1861 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. xvi. 292 The population of Hungary is composed of Magyars, Slovacks, Croats, Serbs, Roumans, and in some districts, Germans.

1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 629/2 Every Serb carries arms.

1883 W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. ii. 33 The Serbs have, unlike the Russians and other Slavs, kept their old name.

1909 M. E. Durham in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 20 Bulgar and Serb each in turn built an empire and swayed the Balkan peoples, and each empire in turn fell shortly after the death of the strong man that made it.

1929 Salt Lake Tribune 20 Jan. v. 7/2 Last year the dispute came to a climax when a Montenegrin Serb in the [Yugoslav] parliament proceeded systematically to shoot up all the conspicuous figures In the Croat party.

1993 F. Lindsay Beacons in Night xxi. 351 General Adzic..is a Serb from Croatia whose entire family was murdered by the Croat Ustashe during the 1941–45 war.

2001 Medal News Feb. 14/3 The Austerlitz Bridge, a significant flash point on the fault line between the Serbs and Albanians.

b. The language of the Serbs; = Serbian n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Lechitic > Serbian

Serbian1733

Serb1862

1862 Vac. Tourists & Notes of Trav. 1860 388 The Highlands of Zeta acquired their distinctive name of ‘Black Mountain’; in Serb, Crnagora; in the Venetian dialect, Montenegro.

1886 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 146 Serb became a proscribed tongue.

1905 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 40 Everyone [in Serbia], whether Christian or Moslem, speaks Serb only.

1953 Tablet 4 Apr. 265/1 Tito..then made a short speech of welcome in Serb.

2006 Canberra Times (Nexis) 7 July a14 They were Hungarians who grew up in Yugoslavia and spoke Serb, as well as Hungarian and German.

B. adj.

Of or relating to Serbs or their language, or to Serbia; Serbian. In some historical contexts: of or relating to a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe during the seventh cent. a.d., inland of the Dalmatian coast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Serbia > [adjective]

Serbian1603

Servian1829

Serb1849

1849 Westm. & Foreign Rev. July 244/1 He stigmatised as revolts and as hostile to these laws, the Serb and Croat movements.

1874 Amer. Cycl. IX. 767/2 Karajitch also published a Serb grammar (translated by Jacob Grimm).

1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 16 The barbarous Serb races who settled in the Danubian basin in the fifth and succeeding centuries.

1917 M. E. Durham in Near East 2 Mar. 421/1 The Serb occupation was but brief, and ran off the Albanian as does water from a duck's back.

1994 Independent on Sunday 18 Dec. 10/1 It ends at a series of bunkers where Serb soldiers swig rakia to keep out the frost.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Mar. 47/1 The Progressive Party is in favor of (peaceful) unification with the Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb part of Bosnia.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	serb
释义	Serbn.adj. Brit. /səːb/, U.S. /sərb/ Forms: 1600s–1700s Serbe, 1700s– Serb. Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Serbe. Etymology: In sense A. 1 < German Serbe, noun (1556 or earlier in this sense) < Upper Sorbian Serb , noun (plural Serbja ) and its cognate Lower Sorbian Serb , noun (plural Serby ), self-designations (both < the same Slavonic base as Serbian Srbi (see below)), perhaps partly via post-classical Latin Serbi , Serbii , plural noun (1552 or earlier in this sense; probably partly < Sorbian and partly < the Latin name of the Balkan people (see below)). Compare French Serbe , noun and adjective (1712 or earlier in this sense). Compare later Sorb n.² Compare Wend n. 1. In sense A. 2 < German Serbe, noun (1562 or earlier in this sense) < post-classical Latin Serbi , Serbii , Serbli , plural noun (1540 or earlier in this sense) < Serbian Srbi , plural noun (Old Serbian Srĭbi , Srĭbli , with -l- in the latter form a common phonological development in Slavonic between a labial consonant and a following front vowel: compare Kremlin n.), Srbin , singular noun (Old Serbian Srĭbinĭ , Srĭblinĭ ), a self-designation < a Slavonic base of uncertain origin (perhaps cognate with Polish pasierb stepson, Old Church Slavonic srĭbanije food (see absorb v.)). Compare French Serbe , noun and adjective (1772 or earlier in this sense). Compare earlier Serbian n., Serbian adj.Compare Byzantine Greek Σέρβλοι , plural noun (10th cent. with reference to a people living in the Balkans; also in the same source with reference to a people living in an unspecified region (possibly corresponding to Bohemia or Lusatia) north of the Carpathians and east of the Kingdom of the East Franks), also Σέρβοι > post-classical Latin Servii , plural noun (1509 or earlier with reference to the Balkans, later extended to Lusatian contexts; compare Sorb n.²). Compare German †Serve, noun (1544 or earlier with reference to Lusatia, 1590 or earlier with reference to the Balkans; < Latin). Compare French †Serve, noun and adjective (1703 or earlier with reference to the Balkans). A. n. 1. = Sorb n.² 1. Now frequently in Lusatian Serb. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Wends or Sorbs > person Serb1695 Wend1786 Sorbian1836 Wendian1838 Sorb1843 Sorabian1851 1695 J. Crull tr. S. von Pufendorf Introd. Hist. Principal Kingdoms Europe viii. 284 This Henry [sc. Henry I of Germany], also did Conquer the Serbes [perh. read Sorbes; Ger. 1683, 1705 Sorben, L. 1687 Sorbes] and Wendes, a Sarmatick or Sclavonian Nation, who..possessed of a large Tract of Land in Germany, on the River Elbe. 1786 tr. J. R. Forster Hist. Voy. & Discov. North iii. vii. 472 There are also some names of these tribes which are original; as for example, the Sorbs, or Serbs, the Tschechs, or Bohemians. 1813 Q. Rev. 10 283 The Serbs or Wends came about the same time into the countries between the Saal and the Oder. 1919 P. R. Radosavljevich Who are Slavs? I. iv. 119 The resentment of the Lusation [sic] Serbs (or Wends as the Germans call them) toward the Teutonic settlers was reasonable. 1997 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 24 Jan. b1 The Wends, who also were known as Sorbs or Serbs, chose to settle in Australia and Texas. 2004 S. Halperin War & Social Change in Mod. Europe v. 162 The postwar settlement left Danes and Lusatian Serbs in Germany; Basques and Catalonians in Spain; [etc.] 2. a. A native or inhabitant of Serbia, a country in south-eastern Europe; (in some historical contexts) a member of a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe during the seventh cent. a.d. Also: a person of Serbian heritage or descent. Cf. Bosnian Serb n. and adj. at Bosnian n. and adj. Compounds.See also the note at Serbian n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Serbia > [noun] Serbian1555 Serb1799 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire I. ii. 454 The third slavonian nation within the borders of Russia, are the Servians or Serbes, a branch of the illyrian Slavi. 1830 C. Fraser Hist. War in Bosnia 86 This country's vicinity to the infidel nations, such as the deceitful Germans, Hungarians, Serbs (Sclavonians), the tribes of Croats, and the Venetians. 1861 J. S. Mill Represent. Govt. xvi. 292 The population of Hungary is composed of Magyars, Slovacks, Croats, Serbs, Roumans, and in some districts, Germans. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 629/2 Every Serb carries arms. 1883 W. R. Morfill Slavonic Lit. ii. 33 The Serbs have, unlike the Russians and other Slavs, kept their old name. 1909 M. E. Durham in Contemp. Rev. Jan. 20 Bulgar and Serb each in turn built an empire and swayed the Balkan peoples, and each empire in turn fell shortly after the death of the strong man that made it. 1929 Salt Lake Tribune 20 Jan. v. 7/2 Last year the dispute came to a climax when a Montenegrin Serb in the [Yugoslav] parliament proceeded systematically to shoot up all the conspicuous figures In the Croat party. 1993 F. Lindsay Beacons in Night xxi. 351 General Adzic..is a Serb from Croatia whose entire family was murdered by the Croat Ustashe during the 1941–45 war. 2001 Medal News Feb. 14/3 The Austerlitz Bridge, a significant flash point on the fault line between the Serbs and Albanians. b. The language of the Serbs; = Serbian n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Lechitic > Serbian Serbian1733 Serb1862 1862 Vac. Tourists & Notes of Trav. 1860 388 The Highlands of Zeta acquired their distinctive name of ‘Black Mountain’; in Serb, Crnagora; in the Venetian dialect, Montenegro. 1886 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 146 Serb became a proscribed tongue. 1905 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 40 Everyone [in Serbia], whether Christian or Moslem, speaks Serb only. 1953 Tablet 4 Apr. 265/1 Tito..then made a short speech of welcome in Serb. 2006 Canberra Times (Nexis) 7 July a14 They were Hungarians who grew up in Yugoslavia and spoke Serb, as well as Hungarian and German. B. adj. Of or relating to Serbs or their language, or to Serbia; Serbian. In some historical contexts: of or relating to a Slavic people who settled in south-eastern Europe during the seventh cent. a.d., inland of the Dalmatian coast. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Serbia > [adjective] Serbian1603 Servian1829 Serb1849 1849 Westm. & Foreign Rev. July 244/1 He stigmatised as revolts and as hostile to these laws, the Serb and Croat movements. 1874 Amer. Cycl. IX. 767/2 Karajitch also published a Serb grammar (translated by Jacob Grimm). 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia i. 16 The barbarous Serb races who settled in the Danubian basin in the fifth and succeeding centuries. 1917 M. E. Durham in Near East 2 Mar. 421/1 The Serb occupation was but brief, and ran off the Albanian as does water from a duck's back. 1994 Independent on Sunday 18 Dec. 10/1 It ends at a series of bunkers where Serb soldiers swig rakia to keep out the frost. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 Mar. 47/1 The Progressive Party is in favor of (peaceful) unification with the Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb part of Bosnia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1695
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