ručak

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Deverbal from ručati. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǔːt͡ʃak/
  • Hyphenation: ru‧čak

Noun

rúčak m inan (Cyrillic spelling ру́чак)

  1. lunch, dinner (midday meal), usually the main meal of the day

Declension

Declension of ručak
singular plural
nominative rúčak rùčkovi
genitive rúčka rúčākā / rùčkōvā
dative rúčku rùčkovima
accusative rúčak rùčkove
vocative rúčku rùčkovi
locative rúčku rùčkovima
instrumental rúčkom rùčkovima

See also

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “ručak”, 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 309

Further reading

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