Given name · Ukrainian
Броніслава
“to protect, to defend”
Броніслава (Bronisláva) is a feminine given name from Proto-Slavic, meaning “to protect, to defend.” It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Bronìslava.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *borniti (“to protect, to defend”), built from Ukrainian броня́ + -слава.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Броніслава’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Броніслава has a diminutive in Бро́ня. In Ukrainian usage, Броніслава can be written in the Roman alphabet as Bronisláva. In Ukrainian usage, Броніслава has a transliteration in Bronìslava.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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.
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