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pohota

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *poxotь. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pôxota/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ho‧ta

Noun

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pȍhota f (Cyrillic spelling по̏хота)

  1. lust, concupiscence, sexual desire
  2. greed, avidity

Declension

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Declension of pohota
singular
nominative pohota
genitive pohote
dative pohoti
accusative pohotu
vocative pohoto
locative pohoti
instrumental pohotom

Derived terms

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adjectives
nouns

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2021), “pohota”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume II: O – Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 154

Further reading

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  • “pohota”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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