Хрват

Macedonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈxr̩vat]
  • Hyphenation: Хр‧ват

Noun

Хрват • (Hrvatm (plural Хрвати, feminine Хрватка, diminutive Хрватче)

  1. Croat

Declension

Declension of Хрват
singular plural
indefinite Хрват (Hrvat) Хрвати (Hrvati)
definite unspecified Хрватот (Hrvatot) Хрватите (Hrvatite)
definite proximal Хрватов (Hrvatov) Хрвативе (Hrvative)
definite distal Хрватон (Hrvaton) Хрватине (Hrvatine)
vocative Хрвату (Hrvatu) Хрвати (Hrvati)
count form Хрвата (Hrvata)

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Unknown and uncertain, but probably existed in Proto-Slavic as *xъrvatъ. See the discussion on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xř̩ʋaːt/

Noun

Хр̀ва̄т m anim (Latin spelling Hr̀vāt, female equivalent Хрва̀тица)

  1. Croat (male, male and female or unspecified)

Declension

Declension of Хрват
singular plural
nominative Хр̀ва̄т Хрва́ти
genitive Хрва́та Хрвата
dative Хрвату Хрватима
accusative Хрвата Хрвате
vocative Хрвате Хрвати
locative Хрвату Хрватима
instrumental Хрватом Хрватима

Descendants

  • French: cravate (see there for further descendants)

Cognates of the ethnonym in other languages mostly are via Latin Croata (e.g. English Croat).

Further reading

  • Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Hr̀vāt”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN