hrach

See also: hrách and Hrach

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gorxъ. Cognate with Bulgarian грах (grah), Serbo-Croatian гра̏х/grȁh (“bean”), Russian горох (gorox), Slovene grah. Non-Slavic cognates include German Giersch (“ground elder”) and Sanskrit घर्षति (ghárṣati, “rub, polish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦrax/

Noun

hrach m (genitive singular hrachu, nominative plural hrachy, genitive plural hrachov, declension pattern of dub)

1. peas

Declension

Declension of hrach

	singular	plural
nominative	hrach	hrachy
genitive	hrachu	hrachov
dative	hrachu	hrachom
accusative	hrach	hrachy
locative	hrachu	hrachoch
instrumental	hrachom	hrachmi

Derived terms

• hrachový
• hrášok m

References

• “hrach”, 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
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “горох”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress