živa

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See also: ziva, zívá, Živa, and жива

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From živa, indefinite feminine form of živ (alive, lively). Compare Macedonian жива (živa), Slovene živo srebro, semantically English quicksilver, Latin argentum vivum and Persian جیوه (jive, mercury).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒîʋa/
  • Hyphenation: ži‧va

Noun

žȉva f (Cyrillic spelling жи̏ва)

  1. (uncountable) mercury

Declension

Adjective

živa

  1. inflection of živ:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural