jastuk

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاصدق (yastık). Compare obsolete or dialectal Bulgarian ястък (jastǎk, couch, bed (in agriculture)), Albanian jastëk.

Noun

jàstuk m inan (Cyrillic spelling ја̀стук)

  1. pillow
    Na njegovoj postelji, na jastuku na kojem spava, ugledala je nekoga drugoga.
    On his bed, on the pillow that he sleeps on, she saw somebody else.
  2. cushion

Declension

Declension of jastuk
singular plural
nominative jastuk jastuci
genitive jastuka jastuka
dative jastuku jastucima
accusative jastuk jastuke
vocative jastuče jastuci
locative jastuku jastucima
instrumental jastukom jastucima

Quotations

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

Synonyms

Further reading

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