ćebe

See also: cebe and cebé

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كبه (kebe), from Persian قبا (qabâ, “garment”), from Arabic قَبَاء (qabāʔ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕêbe/
  • Hyphenation: će‧be

Noun

ćȅbe n (Cyrillic spelling ће̏бе, diminutive ćebénce)

  1. (Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia) blanket
    Synonyms: dȅka, pokrivač
    Mačka se podvukla pod ćebe. ― The cat crawled under the blanket.
  2. (regional, Bosnia, Serbia) comforter
    Synonym: jòrgan

Declension

Declension of ćebe
singular plural
nominative ćȅbe ćèbeta
genitive ćebeta ćebeta
dative ćebetu ćebetima
accusative ćebe ćebeta
vocative ćebe ćebeta
locative ćebetu ćebetima
instrumental ćebetom ćebetima

Further reading

  • “ćebe”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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