policijska

Policijska is an adjective used in several South Slavic languages, including Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin. It is the feminine singular form of the root meaning related to the police, with the masculine form policijski, the feminine form policijska, and the neuter form policijsko. It describes nouns pertaining to police matters, law enforcement, or police authorities.

The base noun is policija, meaning the police. Policijska is commonly found in official terms and everyday language to indicate police-related attributes or institutions. Examples include policijska uprava (police administration), policijska služba (police service), policijska stanica or policijska postaja (police station), and policijska patrola (police patrol). The term is not used alone as a noun; it functions as a descriptor for feminine nouns.

Etymology traces policijska to the word police (policija) and ultimately to the same international roots that appear in various European languages for the concept of public order and policing, with common lineage to words such as police or policija in many languages.

In usage, policijska serves to specify police-related characteristics, operations, or entities in formal and semi-formal contexts. Its exact form changes to match gender and number in sentence structure, as with other adjectives in these languages. While understandable to speakers of neighboring languages, it is not an English term and is typically translated as “police” or “police-related” depending on context. See also police, policing, police station.