baština

See also: baștină and Baștină

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from earlier form bašta ("father"), which is itself a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic. Compare *batę and *batja. Cognates include Bulgarian баща́ (baštá, father), Russian ба́тя (bátja), ба́тько (bátʹko), Old Czech baťa (brother) and Serbo-Croatian dialectal forms báća and bata (brother). First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâʃtina/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧šti‧na

Noun

bȁština f (Cyrillic spelling ба̏штина)

  1. heritage
    Synonyms: násljēđe, náslēđe

Declension

Declension of baština
singular plural
nominative baština baštine
genitive baštine baština
dative baštini baštinama
accusative baštinu baštine
vocative baštino baštine
locative baštini baštinama
instrumental baštinom baštinama

References

  • baština”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “baština”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 46