Meaning of slava | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.
2. A transliteration of the Russian or Ukrainian male given name diminutive Сла́ва (Sláva)

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Examples

“1942: I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a Slava (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)”

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