melancana

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian melanzana, reshaped with mela from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنگان (bâdengân). an Indo-Aryan borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /melǎnt͡saːna/

Noun

melàncāna f (Cyrillic spelling мела̀нца̄на) (regional)

1. aubergine, eggplant

Declension

Declension of melancana

	singular	plural
nominative	melancana	melancane
genitive	melancane	melancana
dative	melancani	melancanama
accusative	melancanu	melancane
vocative	melancano	melancane
locative	melancani	melancanama
instrumental	melancanom	melancanama

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Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian melanzana, reshaped with mela from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنگان (bâdengân), from an Indo-Aryan language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛlant͡sáːna/

Noun

melancȃna f

1. aubergine, eggplant

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.	melancana
gen. sing.	melancane
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	melancana	melancani	melancane
genitive (rodȋlnik)	melancane	melancan	melancan
dative (dajȃlnik)	melancani	melancanama	melancanam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	melancano	melancani	melancane
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	melancani	melancanah	melancanah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	melancano	melancanama	melancanami