Miloš, Milos, Miłosz or spelling variations thereof is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

Miloš
PronunciationCzech: [ˈmɪloʃ]
Serbo-Croatian: [mǐloʃ] (given name), [mîloʃ] (surname)
Slovak: [ˈmilɔʂ]
Gendermale
Language(s)Slavic
Origin
Word/nameSlavic
Meaninghypocorism of Miloslav, from Slavic mil-, "compassionate, dear",[1] and the hypocoristic suffix -oš (similar to the Latin suffix -us).[2]
Other names
Alternative spellingMilosh, Cyrillic: Милош, Miłosz
Variant form(s)female: Milena, Mileva, Milka, Milojka, Milica, Mila
DerivedMilošević
Related namesMile, Milo, Bogomil, Milan, Miloje, Miliša, Miladin, Milat, Mileta, Milojko, Milasin, Milohna, Milovan, Milomir, Milutin, Milenko, Milinko, Milko, Milić, Miodrag, Miloslav, Milisav, Milosav, Miogost, Milman, Milorad, Milivoj, Milivoje

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  1. ^ Franz Miklosich (1860), Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen, pp. 76–77
  2. ^ Petar Skok (1972), "-oš", Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, vol. 2, p. 574