kiša

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kisa"

Serbo-Croatian

FWOTD – 17 June 2026

Etymology

From earlier *kysja. Compare kȉseo.

Compare typologically Russian сыро́й (syrój), сы́рость (sýrostʹ) ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (whence also English sour, Serbo-Croatian си̏р).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kîʃa/, [kîʂa]
Hyphenation: ki‧ša

Noun

kȉša f (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ша, relational adjective kȉšnī)

rain
Synonym: dȁžd

Pada kiša. ― It's raining.
- 1886, Ksaver Šandor Đalski, “Na Groblju”, in Pod Starimi Krovovi:
  Pala je prva jesenska kiša. Stari je Janko, lugar brezovački, javio da su šljuke došle. Od toga časa starac Batorić ne imađaše više mira kod kuće, i tek što se sunce opet pokazalo pa nastali oni nježno svijetli dani prve jeseni, pođosmo u lov.
  The first autumn rains had fallen. Old Janko, the Brezovica forester, announced that the woodcocks had come. From that time on, the elder Batorić did not have any more peace in the house, and as soon as the sun came out again and those sweet light days of early autumn started up, we set out for the hunt.
- 2022, “Danas oblačno i hladno, mestimično sneg i kiša”, in Politika‎^[1]:
  U Beogradu oblačno i hladno, povremeno sa mešovitim padavinama - kišom, susnežicom i snegom.
  In Belgrade [the weather is] cloudy and cold, occasionally with mixed precipitation - with rain, sleet, and snow.

Declension

Declension of *kiša*
	singular	plural
nominative	kȉša	kiše
genitive	kiše	kȋšā
dative	kiši	kišama
accusative	kišu	kiše
vocative	kišo	kiše
locative	kiši	kišama
instrumental	kišom	kišama

Derived terms

kišobran (“umbrella”)