služba

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See also: służba and służbą

Czech

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Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech služba, from Proto-Slavic *služьba. Equivalent to sloužit +‎ -ba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: služ‧ba
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Noun

služba f

  1. service
    poskytovat službato provide a service
  2. duty (period of time spent at work)
    být ve služběto be on duty
    večerní službaevening duty

Declension

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)

  1. service
  2. employment, job
  3. office, work
  4. duty
  5. divine service, ministry

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba.

Pronunciation

Noun

služba f

  1. 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

  1. service

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • služba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran