kovrča

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیورجق (Turkish kıvırcık).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǒʋr̩t͡ʃa/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧vr‧ča

Noun

kòvrča f (Cyrillic spelling ко̀врча)

  1. lock, curl (of hair)

Declension

Declension of kovrča
singular plural
nominative kovrča kovrče
genitive kovrče kovrča
dative kovrči kovrčama
accusative kovrču kovrče
vocative kovrčo kovrče
locative kovrči kovrčama
instrumental kovrčom kovrčama

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kòvrča”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 490

Further reading

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