cepelin

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Lithuanian cepelinas, from German Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sɛˈpɛ.lin/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlin
  • Syllabification: ce‧pe‧lin

Noun

cepelin m inan

  1. (aircraft, aviation, colloquial) Zeppelin (type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century)
  2. cepelinas
    Synonym: kartacz

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
  • cepelinowy

Further reading

  • cepelin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cepelin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡sepěliːn/
  • Hyphenation: ce‧pe‧lin

Noun

cepèlīn m inan (Cyrillic spelling цепѐлӣн)

  1. zeppelin

Declension

Declension of cepelin
singular plural
nominative cepèlīn cepelini
genitive cepelína cepelina
dative cepelinu cepelinima
accusative cepelin cepeline
vocative cepeline cepelini
locative cepelinu cepelinima
instrumental cepelinom cepelinima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “cepelin”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 104