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Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Old Czech služba, from Proto-Slavic *služьba. Equivalent to sloužit + -ba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: služ‧ba
Noun
služba f
- service
- poskytovat služba ― to provide a service
- duty (period of time spent at work)
- být ve službě ― to be on duty
- večerní služba ― evening duty
Declension
Declension of služba (hard feminine reducible)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “služba”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “služba”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “služba”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba. Equivalent to služiti + -ba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /slǔʒba/
- Hyphenation: slu‧žba
Noun
slùžba f (Cyrillic spelling слу̀жба)
- service
- employment, job
- office, work
- duty
- divine service, ministry
Declension
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba.
Pronunciation
Noun
služba f
- service
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “služba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *služьba.
Pronunciation
Noun
slȗžba f
- service
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “služba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran