Complete Definition of "Cyrillic"

English

Etymology
Named after w:Saint Cyril|Saint Cyril, who devised a predecessor to Cyrillic script, the Glagolitic alphabet.

Adjective
Cyrillic

  1. Of or pertaining to Cyrillic script or the Cyrillic alphabet.

Proper noun
Cyrillic

  1. A script used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Translations

Afrikaans: kyrillisches Alphabet
Bosnian: �irilica#Serbian|�irilica f, �irili�no pismo#Bosnian|pismo n
Bulgarian: ки�или�а (kirílitsa) f
Dutch: cyrillisch
Finnish: kyrillinen
French: cyrillique m
German: kyrillisch (adjective)
Greek: κ��ιλλιακ�ν (kyrilliakón) n
Hebrew: ק�ר���ת (qirilit) f
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Korean: �릴 문� kiril munja
Italian: cirillico
Polish: cyrylica f
Portuguese: cirílico
Russian: ки�илли�а (kiríllitsa) f
Serbian:

Spanish: cirílico m
Swedish: kyrillisk
Ukrainian: ки�или�� (kyrýlycja)

See also
w:Cyrillic alphabet|Wikipedia article on Cyrillic

Category:English eponyms

pl:Cyrillic
pt:Cyrillic

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