пробовац

Inherited from Old Slovak probovať. By surface analysis, проба (proba) +‎ -овац (-ovac). Cognates include Polish próbować, Russian про́бовать (próbovatʹ) and Ukrainian про́бувати (próbuvaty).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɔvat͡s
• Hyphenation: про‧бо‧вац

пробовац (probovac) impf (perfective спробовац or попробовац or випробовац)

1. (intransitive) to try, to attempt
2. (transitive) to try, to test

   пробовац шмату ― probovac šmatu ― to try on clothes

3. (transitive) to taste, to sample

   Synonym: коштовац (koštovac)

4. (transitive) to examine, to test

   Synonyms: випитовац (vipitovac), преверйовац (preverjovac)

• Different senses of the verb take different corresponding perfective forms.
  • Sense 1 takes the perfective form спробовац (sprobovac);
  • Sense 2 попробовац (poprobovac) or випробовац (viprobovac);
  • Sense 3 попробовац (poprobovac);
  • And sense 4 випробовац (viprobovac).

• Medʹeši, H., Fejsa, M., Timko-Djitko, O. (2010) “пробовац”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Руско-сербски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “attempt”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 31
• Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “test”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 325