Josip

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Іѡсифъ (Iosifŭ), from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yōsép). Doublet of Josif and Jusuf.

Pronunciation

  • (Croatia) IPA(key): /jǒsip/
  • Hyphenation: Jo‧sip

Proper noun

Jòsip m anim (Cyrillic spelling Јо̀сип)

  1. (biblical) Joseph
  2. (chiefly Croatia) a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Joseph

Declension

Declension of Josip
singular
nominative Josip
genitive Josipa
dative Josipu
accusative Josipa
vocative Josipe
locative Josipu
instrumental Josipom

Further reading

  • “Josip”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2026
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.