molba
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From moliti (“to request, plead”) + -ba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǒlba/
Noun
mòlba f (Cyrillic spelling мо̀лба)
- request, plea (written or verbal)
- Imam samo jednu molbu. ― I only have one request.
- (Croatia, formal) application (a formal written request)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mòlba | molbe |
| genitive | molbe | mólbī / mólbā |
| dative | molbi | molbama |
| accusative | molbu | molbe |
| vocative | molbo | molbe |
| locative | molbi | molbama |
| instrumental | molbom | molbama |
Related terms
Further reading
- “molba”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025