Vukmir
Appearance
Pronunciation | [vuːk] |
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Gender | male |
Language(s) | Serbian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian |
Origin | |
Language(s) | Slavic |
Meaning | "wolf" + "lord" |
Region of origin | Slavic |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Vukmira (female) Vukmirović (surname) |
Related names | See Vuk (name) and list |
Vukmir (Serbian Cyrillic: Вукмир) is a Slavic male given name and surname.[1] It is derived from the Slavic noun vuk (wolf) and mir (peace). It is one of many Serbian given names derived from vuk.[2] All the derivatives from vuk were regarded as apotropaic names.[3] At least 66 people with the surname died at the Jasenovac concentration camp.[4] It may refer to:
People
[edit]- Leah Vukmir (born 1958), American politician
- Dragan Vukmir (born 1978), Serbian footballer
- Rade Vukmir, American emergency and critical care physician
Fictional characters
[edit]- Vukmir, portrayed by Sergej Trifunović, is the main fictional villain from the 2010 controversial Serbian movie A Serbian Film
See also
[edit]- Vladimir Velmar-Janković, writer, pen name "Jorge Vukmir"
References
[edit]- ^ До Вука и од Вука: нашим језичким стазама, pp. 101-104
- ^ Miklosich, Franz (1860). Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen (in German). Vienna: Aus der kaiserlich-königlichen Hoff- und Staatdruckerei. pp. 44–45.
- ^ Čajkanović, Veselin (1973). Đurić, Vojislav (ed.). Мит и религија у Срба: изабране студије (in Serbian). Belgrade: Srpska književna zadruga. p. 60.
- ^ "Jasenovac Research Institute".