nohavice

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech nohavicě, from Proto-Slavic *nogavica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnoɦavɪt͡sɛ]

Noun

nohavice f

1. leg (part of garment, such as a pair of trousers or pants, that covers a leg)

Declension

Declension of nohavice (soft feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	nohavice	nohavice
genitive	nohavice	nohavic
dative	nohavici	nohavicím
accusative	nohavici	nohavice
vocative	nohavice	nohavice
locative	nohavici	nohavicích
instrumental	nohavicí	nohavicemi

Further reading

• “nohavice”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “nohavice”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “nohavice”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Slovak

Etymology

From noha (“leg”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔɦavit͡se/, [ˈnɔɦaʋit͡se]
• Rhymes: -it͡se
• Hyphenation: no‧ha‧vi‧ce

Noun

nohavice f (plural only)

1. the outer clothing fully or partly covering both legs with two long or short sleeves, trousers

Declension

Declension of nohavice

	plurale tantum
nominative	nohavice
genitive	nohavíc
dative	nohaviciam
accusative	nohavice
locative	nohaviciach
instrumental	nohavicami

Derived terms

• krátke nohavice
• nohavicový
• nohavičky

Noun

nohavice

1. inflection of nohavica:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Further reading

• “nohavice”, 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, 2003–2026