tovar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tovarъ, from Proto-Turkic *dabar (“livestock, property, merchandise”).

Compare Polish towar (“merchandise”), Turkish davar (“cattle”).

Noun

tòvar m (Cyrillic spelling то̀вар)

1. cargo
2. burden
3. load
4. (derogatory) a person from Dalmatia
5. (Chakavian) donkey

Declension

Declension of tovar

	singular	plural
nominative	tovar	tovari
genitive	tovara	tovara
dative	tovaru	tovarima
accusative	tovara	tovare
vocative	tovare	tovari
locative	tovaru	tovarima
instrumental	tovarom	tovarima

Derived terms

• tovariti
• natovariti
• iztovariti
• utovariti
• pretovariti
• utovar

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tovar.

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tovarъ, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔvar/

Noun

tovar m (genitive singular tovaru, nominative plural tovary, genitive plural tovarov, declension pattern of dub)

1. goods

Declension

Declension of tovar

	singular	plural
nominative	tovar	tovary
genitive	tovaru	tovarov
dative	tovaru	tovarom
accusative	tovar	tovary
locative	tovare	tovaroch
instrumental	tovarom	tovarmi

Derived terms

• tovarový

Further reading

• “tovar”, 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