служба

• słužba — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)

From Middle Belarusian служба (služba), from Proto-Slavic *služьba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɫuʐba]

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слу́жба • (slúžba) f inan (genitive слу́жбы, nominative plural слу́жбы, genitive plural слу́жбаў)

1. service
2. employment, job

• “служба” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

From Proto-Slavic *služьba. Morphologically from слу́жа (slúža, “to serve”) +‎ -ба (-ba).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɫuʒbɐ]

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слу́жба • (slúžba) f (relational adjective служе́бен)

1. service

• слу́га m (slúga), слуги́ня f (slugínja, “servant”)
• прислу́га (prislúga, “servants”) (collective)

• “служба”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “служба”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɫuʒba]

служба • (služba) f (relational adjective службен)

1. service

• служба in Makedonisch Info (germansko-makedonski rečnik, makedonsko-germanski rečnik)

Inherited from Old Slovak služba, from Proto-Slavic *služьba. Cognates include Carpathian Rusyn слу́жба (slúžba) and Slovak služba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsluʒba]
• Rhymes: -uʒba
• Hyphenation: служ‧ба

служба (služba) f (diminutive службочка, related adjective службени or службови)

1. service

   дружтвени служби ― družtveni službi ― social services

   обвисцуюца служба ― obviscujuca služba ― intelligence service

   • 2024 November 20, Ол. Русковски, “Жимска служба вербаского „Комуналцуˮ порихтана за жиму [The winter service of the Vrbas "Komunalac" is prepared for winter]”, in Руске Слово‎^[1]:

     Вербаска Жимска служба будзе отримовац драги першого, другого и трецого приоритету, углавним транспортнїци у насельох и даскельо локални драги, покля за други напрями компетентне подприємство „Бачка драгаˮ.

     Verbaska Žimska služba budze otrimovac drahi peršoho, druhoho i trecoho prioritetu, uhlavnim transportnjici u naselʹox i daskelʹo lokalni drahi, poklja za druhi naprjami kompetentne podprijemstvo „Bačka drahaˮ.

     The Winter Service of Vrbas will maintain the streets of the first, second and third priority, mainly roads in the settlements and some local streets, while the competent company "Bačka Draha" will be for other routes.

2. (Christianity) divine service

   мала служба ― mala služba ― children's service (literally, “small service”)

   велька служба ― velʹka služba ― morning service (for the elderly) (literally, “big service”)

   служиц службу ― služic službu ― to serve a service

3. (obsolete) job

   Synonym: робота (robota)

   глєда себе службу ― hljeda sebe službu ― he is looking for a job

• RSS, page 809: “служба”
• ARS, page 273: “service”

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba. By surface analysis, служи́ть (služítʹ) +‎ -ба (-ba).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɫuʐbə]

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слу́жба • (slúžba) f inan (genitive слу́жбы, nominative plural слу́жбы, genitive plural служб, relational adjective служе́бный)

1. service
2. employment, job
3. office, work, post
4. duty
5. divine service

• слу́жащий (slúžaščij)
• служе́ние (služénije)
• служи́ть (služítʹ)

• → Karelian: sluušpa (meaning 'religious service')
• → Yakut: сулууспа (suluuspa)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *služьba.

• IPA^(key): /slǔʒba/
• Hyphenation: служ‧ба

слу̀жба f (Latin spelling slùžba)

1. service
2. employment, job
3. office, work
4. duty
5. divine service

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

From Proto-Slavic *služьba.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɫuʒbɐ]

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слу́жба • (slúžba) f inan (genitive слу́жби, nominative plural слу́жби, genitive plural служб)

1. service
2. employment, job
3. office, work
4. duty
5. divine service

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “служба”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• “служба”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)