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Бранислав
“to defend”·“to celebrate”
Бранислав (Brànislav) is a masculine given name. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Bulgarian and Russian and Serbian and Serbo-CroatianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Brànislav.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Бранислав is built from elements meaning “to defend” and “to celebrate”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Бранислав’s family of names
In Russian usage, Бранислав has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Bronisław. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Бранислав can be written in the Roman alphabet as Brànislav.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Бранислав
- Branislau Samoilauroad bicycle racerborn 1985
- Bronisław Zaleskipolitical activist and writer (1819–1880)
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