žaba

See also: Zaba, żaba, and žába

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒaba/

Noun

žaba f ? (diminutive žabka)

1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	žaba	žabje	žaby
Genitive	žaby	žabowu	žabow
Dative	žabje	žaboma	žabam
Accusative	žabu	žabje	žaby
Instrumental	žabu	žaboma	žabami
Locative	žabje	žaboma	žabach

Derived terms

• žabcycka
• žabina
• žabinka
• žabiny
• žabjecy
• žabjeńcowaty
• žabkowaś
• žabnišćo
• žabywózenje

 

Further reading

• 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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

žȁba f (Cyrillic spelling жа̏ба)

1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba

	singular	plural
nominative	žȁba	žabe
genitive	žabe	žȃbā
dative	žabi	žabama
accusative	žabu	žabe
vocative	žabo	žabe
locative	žabi	žabama
instrumental	žabom	žabama

Related terms

• žábac

Descendants

• → Albanian: zhabë

References

• “žaba” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʒaba/

Noun

žaba f (genitive singular žaby, nominative plural žaby, genitive plural žiab, declension pattern of žena)

1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba

	singular	plural
nominative	žaba	žaby
genitive	žaby	žiab
dative	žabe	žabám
accusative	žabu	žaby
locative	žabe	žabách
instrumental	žabou	žabami

Derived terms

• žabacina
• žabka
• žabací
• žabí
• žabička
• žabiško

Further reading

• “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, 2024

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Slovene

Žaba

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒàːba/

Noun

žába f

1. frog

Inflection

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

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *žaba.

Noun

žaba f

1. frog

Declension

Declension of žaba

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	žaba	žabje	žaby
genitive	žaby	žabow	žabow
dative	žabje	žabomaj	žabam
accusative	žabu	žabje	žaby
instrumental	žabu	žabomaj	žabami
locative	žabje	žabomaj	žabach
vocative	žaba	žabje	žaby