glava
See also: glåvă
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *golva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ.
Pronunciation
Noun
gláva f (Cyrillic spelling гла́ва)
- (anatomy) head
- chapter (section of a book)
- head, mind; brains (a source of mental ability and intelligence)
- Neznam 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.
- head, chief, chairman, chairperson (person who leads an organized group)
- glava kuće ― head of the household
Declension
Declension of glava
Derived terms
References
- “glava” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *golva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *galˀwā́ˀ.
Pronunciation
Noun
gláva f
- head
- Kar ti v glavi ostane, ti nihče ne vzame
- What is in your head nobody can take away.
Inflection
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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. | 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 |
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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, long mixed 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
Categories:
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian feminine nouns
- sh:Anatomy
- Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples
- Slovene terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Slovene terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Slovene terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Slovene terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Slovene 2-syllable words
- Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovene lemmas
- Slovene nouns
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- sl:Body parts
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