prsa
Czech
Noun
prsa
- nominative plural of prso
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- pȑsi (colloquial)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pírˀśis, from Proto-Indo-European *pérḱus. Cognates include Ossetian фарс (fars), Sanskrit पर्शु (párśu), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬎 (parašu, “rib”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr̂sa/
- Hyphenation: pr‧sa
Noun
pȑsa n pl (Cyrillic spelling пр̏са)
- (plural only, anatomy) chest
- Synonym: njȅdra
- (plural only) breasts
- idiomatic and figurative meanings
- borba prsa u prsa ― hand-to-hand combat
- kokošja prsa ― chicken breast
- tvrda prsa ― hard chest
Declension
Declension of prsa
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | pȑsa |
| genitive | pȓsā |
| dative | pȑsima |
| accusative | pȑsa |
| vocative | pȑsa |
| locative | pȑsima |
| instrumental | pȑsima |
Derived terms
References
- “prsa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025