From Slav + -ic .
Slavic (comparative more Slavic , superlative most Slavic )
Of the Slavs , their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
1971 , Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis , “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution , Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company , →LCCN , section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20 :Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.
of the Slavs, their culture or languages
Afrikaans: Slawies
Albanian: sllav (sq) , nashke
Arabic: سْلَافِيّ ( slāfiyy ) , صَقْلَبِيّ ( ṣaqlabiyy )
Hijazi Arabic: سلاڤي m ( slāvi )
Armenian: սլավոնական (hy) ( slavonakan )
Azerbaijani: slavyan
Belarusian: славя́нскі ( slavjánski )
Bengali: স্লাভিক ( slabhik ) , স্লাভীয় ( slabhiẏo )
Bulgarian: славя́нски ( slavjánski )
Burmese: ဆလဗ ( hca.la.ba. )
Carpathian Rusyn: славя́нскый ( slavjánskŷj )
Catalan: eslau
Chinese:
Cantonese: 斯拉夫 ( si1 laai1 fu1 )
Mandarin: 斯拉夫 (zh) ( sīlāfū )
Cree: slovenski
Czech: slovanský (cs)
Danish: slavisk
Dutch: Slavisch (nl)
Esperanto: slava
Estonian: slaavi
Finnish: slaavilainen (fi)
French: slave (fr) , slavon (fr)
Friulian: slâf
Georgian: სლავური ( slavuri )
German: slawisch (de)
Greek: σλαυικός ( slavikós ) , σλαβικός (el) ( slavikós )
Hawaiian: Selawika , ʻōlelo Selawika
Hebrew: סְלָאבִי ( slávi )
Hindi: स्लाव ( slāv ) , स्लावी ( slāvī )
Hungarian: szláv (hu)
Icelandic: slavískur
Irish: Slavach , Slavónach
Italian: slavo (it)
Japanese: スラヴ ( suravu ) , スラブ ( surabu )
Kashubian: słoviński
Kazakh: славян ( slavän ) , славяндық ( slavändyq )
Khmer: ស្លាវ ( slaaw ) , ស្លាវី ( slaavii )
Komi-Permyak: славян ( slavʹan )
Komi-Zyrian: славян ( slavan )
Korean: 슬라브 ( seullabeu )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: slavî (ku)
Kyrgyz: славян ( slavyan ) , славяндык ( slavyandık )
Latvian: slāvu , slāvisks
Lithuanian: slavų m , slaviškas
Macedonian: словенски ( slovenski )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: славян ( slavjan )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: slavisk
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: словѣньскъ ( slověnĭskŭ )
Pashto: سلاو ( sláw ) , اسلاو ( esláw )
Persian: اسلاو (fa) ( eslâv )
Polish: słowiański (pl)
Portuguese: eslavo (pt) , eslávico
Romanian: slavon (ro) , slavonesc (ro) , slav (ro)
Russian: славя́нский (ru) ( slavjánskij )
Scottish Gaelic: Slàbhach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сло̀ве̄нскӣ ( now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian ) , сло̀вје̄нскӣ ( now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian ) , сла̀ве̄нскӣ ( Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian )
Roman: slòvēnskī (sh) ( now chiefly Serbia, Ekavian ) , slòvjēnskī (sh) ( now chiefly Serbia, Ijekavian ) , slàvēnskī (sh) ( Bosnian, Croatian, dated Serbian )
Sicilian: slavu m
Silesian: słowjański
Slovak: slovanský
Slovene: slovánski (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower: słowjański
Upper: słowjanski (hsb)
Spanish: eslavo (es)
Swedish: slavisk (sv)
Tagalog: Eslabo
Tajik: славян ( slavyan )
Tatar: славян ( slawyan )
Thai: สลาฟ ( sà-láaf )
Turkish: Slav (tr)
Turkmen: slawýan
Udmurt: славян ( slavan )
Ukrainian: слов'я́нський (uk) ( slovʺjánsʹkyj )
Urdu: سلاو ( slāv ) , سلاوی ( slāvī )
Uyghur: سىلاۋىيان ( silawiyan )
Uzbek: slavyan (uz)
Vietnamese: Xla-vơ
Welsh: Slafaidd
Yiddish: סלאַוויש ( slavish )
Slavic (uncountable )
Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic , Common Slavic , Old Church Slavic , or the modern Slavic languages .
It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.