glava

See also: glåvă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *golva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlǎːʋa/
• Hyphenation: gla‧va

Noun

gláva f (Cyrillic spelling гла́ва)

1. (anatomy) head
2. chapter (section of a book)
3. head, mind; brains (a source of mental ability and intelligence)

   Ne znam zašto sam to napravio. Glava mi se ugasila na sekundu. ― I don't know why I did that. My head turned off for a second.

4. head, chief, chairman, chairperson (person who leads an organized group)

   glava kuće ― head of the household

Declension

Declension of glava

	singular	plural
nominative	gláva	glȃve
genitive	glávē	glavā
dative	glávi glȃvi	glávama
accusative	glȃvu	glȃve
vocative	glȃvo	glȃve
locative	glávi	glávama
instrumental	glávōm	glávama

Derived terms

• glàvār
• glavèšina
• glàvnī
• glàvnica
• ići glavom kroz zid
• náglavak
• s glavom i repom
• vrtòglav
• zagláviti

 

References

• “glava” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *golva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlàːʋa/

Noun

gláva f

1. head

   Kar ti v glavi ostane, ti nihče ne vzame. ― What is in your head nobody can take away.

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	gláva
gen. sing.	gláve
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gláva	glávi	gláve
genitive (rodȋlnik)	gláve	gláv	gláv
dative (dajȃlnik)	glávi	glávama	glávam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	glávo	glávi	gláve
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	glávi	glávah	glávah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	glávo	glávama	glávami

Feminine, a-stem, mobile accent
nom. sing.	gláva
gen. sing.	glavé
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gláva	glavé	glavé
genitive (rodȋlnik)	glavé	gláv	gláv
dative (dajȃlnik)	glávi	glaváma	glavàm
accusative (tožȋlnik)	glavó	glavé	glavé
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	glávi	glavàh	glavàh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	glavó	glaváma	glavámi

Derived terms

• glaven
• poglavje

Further reading

• “glava”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran