krabulja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *korbulja.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krǎbuʎa/
  • Hyphenation: kra‧bu‧lja

Noun

kràbulja f (Cyrillic spelling кра̀буља)

  1. mask (partial cover for the face, used for disguise or protection)

Declension

Declension of krabulja
singular plural
nominative krabulja krabulje
genitive krabulje krabulja
dative krabulji krabuljama
accusative krabulju krabulje
vocative krabuljo krabulje
locative krabulji krabuljama
instrumental krabuljom krabuljama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kràbulja”, 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 491

Further reading

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