"Balkanize" meaning in English

See Balkanize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: Balkanizes [present, singular, third-person], Balkanizing [participle, present], Balkanized [participle, past], Balkanized [past]
Etymology: Balkan + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Balkan|ize}} Balkan + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} Balkanize (third-person singular simple present Balkanizes, present participle Balkanizing, simple past and past participle Balkanized)
  1. (transitive) To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis. Tags: transitive Synonyms: Balkanise, balkanise, balkanize Related terms: Balkan, Balkans, Balkanization, Balkanisation Translations (to break up): balcanitzar (Catalan), balkaniseren (Dutch), balkanisoida (Finnish), balkaniser (French), balcanizar (Galician), zersplittern (German), balkanisieren (German), βαλκανοποιώ (valkanopoió) (Greek), balcanizzare (Italian), balcanizar (Portuguese), балканизировать (balkanizirovatʹ) (Russian), balcanizar (Spanish), balkanisera (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Balkanize-en-verb-7Ge-KU2b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for Balkanize meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Balkan",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Balkan + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Balkan + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Balkanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Balkanize (third-person singular simple present Balkanizes, present participle Balkanizing, simple past and past participle Balkanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis."
      ],
      "id": "en-Balkanize-en-verb-7Ge-KU2b",
      "links": [
        [
          "break up",
          "break up"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "mutually",
          "mutually"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ],
        [
          "unit",
          "unit"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Balkan"
        },
        {
          "word": "Balkans"
        },
        {
          "word": "Balkanization"
        },
        {
          "word": "Balkanisation"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Balkanise"
        },
        {
          "word": "balkanise"
        },
        {
          "word": "balkanize"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balcanitzar"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balkaniseren"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balkanisoida"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balkaniser"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balcanizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "zersplittern"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balkanisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "valkanopoió",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "βαλκανοποιώ"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balcanizzare"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balcanizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "balkanizirovatʹ",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "балканизировать"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balcanizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to break up",
          "word": "balkanisera"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Balkanize"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Balkan",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Balkan + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Balkan + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Balkanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Balkanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Balkanize (third-person singular simple present Balkanizes, present participle Balkanizing, simple past and past participle Balkanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Balkan"
    },
    {
      "word": "Balkans"
    },
    {
      "word": "Balkanization"
    },
    {
      "word": "Balkanisation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "break up",
          "break up"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "mutually",
          "mutually"
        ],
        [
          "hostile",
          "hostile"
        ],
        [
          "unit",
          "unit"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Balkanise"
    },
    {
      "word": "balkanise"
    },
    {
      "word": "balkanize"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balcanitzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balkaniseren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balkanisoida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balkaniser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balcanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "zersplittern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balkanisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "valkanopoió",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "βαλκανοποιώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balcanizzare"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balcanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "balkanizirovatʹ",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "балканизировать"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balcanizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to break up",
      "word": "balkanisera"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Balkanize"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.