Ljuba

Gender Masculine & Feminine
Scripts Pron. /ˈʎû.ba/ (Serbian, Croatian) /ˈlju.ba/ (Czech) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Slavic element ľuby meaning "love" [1] [2] , or a short form of names beginning with that element. It is typically masculine in Serbia and feminine elsewhere.

Related Names

VariantsLjubo (Serbian) Ljubica (Croatian) Ljubica (Slovene) Ljubica, Ljubinka (Macedonian) Liběna, Libuše (Czech)
Other Languages & CulturesLiubou (Belarusian) Lubomir, Lyuba, Lyubomir, Lyubka (Bulgarian) Luba (Georgian) Ļubova (Latvian) Ľubomirŭ (Old Slavic) Lubomierz (Polish) Lioubov, Liubov, Ljubov, Lubov, Lyubov, Liouba, Luba, Lyuba, Lyubochka (Russian) Libuša, Ľuba, Ľubica, Ľubomír (Slovak) Liubov, Lubov, Lyubomyr, Lyubov, Luba, Lyuba, Lyubochka (Ukrainian)

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Name Days

Croatia: July 18
Czechia: February 16
  1. Derksen, Rick. Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Brill, 2008, page 281.
  2. Trubachyov, Oleg. Etimologicheskiy Slovar Slavyanskikh Yazykov (vol. 15). Moscow, 1974-, page 185.

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