lepinja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian lepény with further etymology uncertain.[1]First attested in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lěpiɲa/
  • Hyphenation: le‧pi‧nja

Noun

lèpinja f (Cyrillic spelling лѐпиња)

  1. a loaf of round wheaten yeast bread, pita

Declension

Declension of lepinja
singular plural
nominative lèpinja lèpinje
genitive lepinje lepinja
dative lepinji lepinjamama
accusative lepinju lepinje
vocative lepinjo lepinje
locative lepinji lepinjama
instrumental lepinjom lepinjama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “lepinja”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 547

Further reading

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