Скопје

Macedonian

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Σκοῦποι (Skoûpoi); compare Latin Scūpī, Albanian Shkup, Ottoman Turkish اوسكوب (Üsküb) and Serbo-Croatian Skȍplje.

The name may have been subjected to phono-semantic matching when the Slavs settled in the area, with the Proto-Slavic elements *sъ + *kopьje + *-ьje, as seen in cognates Serbo-Croatian Skȍplje, Bulgarian Скопие (Skopie), Old Church Slavonic Съкопиѥ (Sŭkopije).

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈskɔpjɛ]

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• Hyphenation: Скоп‧је

Proper noun

Ско́пје • (Skópje) n (relational adjective ско́пски)

1. Skopje (the capital city of North Macedonia)

Declension

Declension of Скопје

	singular
indefinite	Скопје
definite unspecified	Скопјето
definite proximal	Скопјево
definite distal	Скопјено
vocative	Скопје

Derived terms

• ско́пјанец m (skópjanec), ско́пјанка f (skópjanka)

References

• “Скопје” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu