žaba

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See also: Zaba, žába, żaba, Żaba, żabą, and Żabą

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

Noun

žaba f (diminutive žabka)

  1. frog

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “žaba”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “žaba”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒâba/
  • Hyphenation: ža‧ba

Noun

žȁba f (Cyrillic spelling жа̏ба, diminutive žȁbica, augmentative žabètina, relational adjective žȁbljī or žȁbin)

  1. frog

Declension

Descendants

  • Albanian: zhabë

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žȁba”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 613

Further reading

  • žaba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

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Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

Noun

žaba f (related adjective žabí or žabací, diminutive žabka or žabička or žabienka or žabôčka, augmentative žabisko)

  1. frog

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • žaba”, 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, 2003–2024

Slovene

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Žaba

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒàːba/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

žába f

  1. frog

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. žába
gen. sing. žábe
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
žába žábi žábe
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
žábe žáb žáb
dative
(dajȃlnik)
žábi žábama žábam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
žábo žábi žábe
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
žábi žábah žábah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
žábo žábama žábami

Further reading

  • žaba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žàba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒaba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Hyphenation: ža‧ba
  • Syllabification: ža‧ba

Noun

žaba f

  1. (zoology) frog
    Žaby žeru muchi.
    Frogs eat flies.

Declension

Further reading