Časlav is a
Slavic given name, which has several spelling variants: Časlav (
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
: Часлав) in
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
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* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
, Čáslav or Čéslav in
Czech, and Czasław or Czesław in
Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
. In medieval Greek texts, the name is spelled as Τζασθλάβος. The name consists of two elements, ''ča'' and ''slav''. The element ''ča'' is a Slavic
root
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the sur ...
meaning "to await" or "to look forward to", expressing the idea that the child is an eagerly awaited gift. The element ''slav'' is very common in Slavic
anthroponym
Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'' / 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'' / 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and co ...
s. It comes from ''slava'' "glory", and has the sense of "good name" in the given names.
Notable people named Časlav:
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Časlav Klonimirović, ruler of
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
(927–960)
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Časlav Đorđević, Serbian writer
See also
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Czesław
Czesław, ( cz, Česlav, be, italic=yes, Časłaŭ; Česłaŭ, lt, Česlovas) is an old given name derived from the Slavic elements ''ča'' (to await) and ''slava'' (glory). Feminine form: Czesława/Česlava. The name may refer to:
* Ceslaus, ...
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Čáslav (disambiguation)
References
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Slavic masculine given names
Serbian masculine given names
Masculine given names