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žaba

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See also: Zaba, žába, żaba, Żaba, żabą, and Żabą

Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʒa.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Syllabification: ža‧ba

Noun

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žaba f (diminutive žabka)

  1. frog

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “žaba”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “žaba”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʒâba/
  • Hyphenation: ža‧ba

Noun

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žȁba f (Cyrillic spelling жа̏ба, diminutive žȁbica, augmentative žabètina, relational adjective žȁbljī or žȁbin)

  1. frog

Declension

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Declension of žaba
singular plural
nominative žȁba žȁbe
genitive žȁbē žȃbā
dative žȁbi žȁbama
accusative žȁbu žȁbe
vocative žȁbo žȁbe
locative žȁbi žȁbama
instrumental žȁbōm žȁbama
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Descendants

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  • Albanian: zhabë

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žȁba”, 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 613

Further reading

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

Slovak

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʒaba]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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žaba f (relational adjective žabí or žabací, diminutive žabka or žabička or žabienka or žabôčka, augmentative žabisko)

  1. frog

Declension

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Declension of žaba
(pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativežabažaby
genitivežabyžiab
dativežabežabám
accusativežabužaby
locativežabežabách
instrumentalžaboužabami

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • žaba”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

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Žaba

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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žába f

  1. frog

Declension

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. žába
gen. sing. žábe
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
žába žábi žábe
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
žábe žáb žáb
dative
(dajȃlnik)
žábi žábama žábam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
žábo žábi žábe
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
žábi žábah žábah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
žábo žábama žábami

Further reading

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  • žaba”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *žàba.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʒa.ba/
  • Rhymes: -aba
  • Syllabification: ža‧ba

Noun

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žaba f

  1. (zoology) frog
    Žaby žeru muchi.
    Frogs eat flies.

Declension

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Further reading

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