kotar

See also: Kotar and kotär

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotarъ.[1] Only attested in South Slavic; compare dialectal Bulgarian котар (kotar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kôtaːr/
  • Hyphenation: ko‧tar

Noun

kȍtār m anim (Cyrillic spelling ко̏та̄р)

  1. country, district

Declension

Declension of kotar
singular plural
nominative kotar kotarevi
genitive kotara kotareva
dative kotaru kotarevima
accusative kotara kotareve
vocative kotaru kotarevi
locative kotaru kotarevima
instrumental kotarom kotarevima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “kotar”, 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 488

Further reading

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