rubac
See also: rubać
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rǫbьcь. By surface analysis, rub + -ac. The inital meaning was ‘a cut-off piece of fabric’. Compare Slovene rọ́bec. First attested in the 15th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rǔːbat͡s/
- Hyphenation: ru‧bac
Noun
rúbac m inan (Cyrillic spelling ру́бац)
- (rare) kerchief, handkerchief
- Synonym: marama
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rúbac | rúpci |
| genitive | rúpca | rȗbācā |
| dative | rupcu | rupcima |
| accusative | rubac | rupce |
| vocative | rupče | rupci |
| locative | rupcu | rupcima |
| instrumental | rupcem | rupcima |
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016–2021) “rubac”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 309
Further reading
- “rubac”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025