kolovoz

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolovozъ (“rut, wheel track”). Equivalent to kȍlo (“wheel, cart wheel”) + vȏz (“cart load”), vòziti (“to drive”), thus denoting the month in which mowed grain is being carried.

• IPA^(key): /kôloʋoːz/
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧voz

kȍlovōz m inan (Cyrillic spelling ко̏лово̄з)

1. carriageway

   Synonym: (Croatian) kolnik

2. (Croatia) August

   Synonyms: (Bosnian) àugust, (Serbian) àvgust

   u kolovozu ― in August

   petnaestog kolovoza ― on the fifteenth of August

   • 2015, Pavao Pavličić, Diksilend:

     Mora biti da je bio kolovoz, doba kad Vukovar miriše na svježe paprike što se prodaju na tržnici, na pečene što cvrče na ...

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