Ljubica

Ljubica
Genderfemale
Language(s)Slavic
Origin
Meaningl'ub (love)
Region of originSlavic
Other names
Nickname(s)Ljuba
Related namesLjubomir

Ljubica (Serbian Cyrillic: Љубица and Macedonian: Љубица) is a Slavic feminine given name meaning "love" or "kiss", where -ica is a diminutive suffix. Also, ljubica means violet, while the actual flower is ljubičica, a superdiminutive. It is Serbo-Croatian in origin, used throughout the former Yugoslavia.

Variants

  • Bulgarian: Lyubitsa, Любица
  • Slovak: Ľubica

Notable people

  • Ljubica Acevska (born 1957), Macedonian diplomat
  • Ljubica Čakarević (1894–1980), Serbian combatant
  • Ljubica Drljača (born 1978), Serbian basketball coach and player
  • Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov (1884–1933), Serbian-Bulgarian textile worker, activist, newspaper editor and poet
  • Ljubica Janković (1894–1974), Serbian ethnomusicologist
  • Ljubica Jelušič (born 1960), Slovenian politician
  • Ljubica Luković (1858–1915), Serbian nurse, social worker, teacher and translator
  • Ljubica Marić (1909–2003), Serbian composer
  • Ljubica Mrdaković Todorović (born 1962), Serbian doctor and politician
  • Ljubica Nenezić (born 1997), Montenegrin handball player
  • Ljubica Ostojić (1945–2021), Bosnian poet, writer and playwright
  • Ljubica Otašević (1933–1998), Serbian actress, body double and basketball player
  • Ljubica Sokić (1914–2009), Serbian painter
  • Ljubica Štefan (1921–2002), Croatian historian
  • Ljubica Vukomanović (1788–1843), Serbian Princess consort
  • Ljubica Živković (1936–2017), Serbian chess player

See also

  • Ljuba (name)
  • Ljubomir (given name)


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