žaba

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

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒa.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Syllabification: ža‧ba

Noun

žaba f (diminutive žabka)

  1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative žaba žabje žaby
Genitive žaby žabowu žabow
Dative žabje žaboma žabam
Accusative žabu žabje žaby
Instrumental žabu žaboma žabami
Locative žabje žaboma žabach

Derived terms

  • žabcycka
  • žabina
  • žabinka
  • žabiny
  • žabjecy
  • žabjeńcowaty
  • žabkowaś
  • žabnišćo
  • žabywózenje

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

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, relational adjective žȁbljī or žȁbin, diminutive žȁbica, augmentative žabètina)

  1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba
singular plural
nominative žȁba žȁbe
genitive žȁbē žȃbā
dative žȁbi žȁbama
accusative žȁbu žȁbe
vocative žȁbo žȁbe
locative žȁbi žȁbama
instrumental žȁbōm žȁbama
nouns

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), 2006–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʒaba]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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

  1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba
(pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativežabažaby
genitivežabyžiab
dativežabežabám
accusativežabužaby
locativežabežabách
instrumentalžaboužabami

Derived terms

  • žabacina

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, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

žába f

  1. frog

Declension

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), 2014–2025

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žàba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒa.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Syllabification: ža‧ba

Noun

žaba f

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

Declension

Declension of žaba (feminine hard stem)
singular dual plural
nominative žaba žabje žaby
genitive žaby žabow žabow
dative žabje žabomaj žabam
accusative žabu žabje žaby
instrumental žabu žabomaj žabami
locative žabje žabomaj žabach
vocative žaba žabje žaby

Further reading

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