slavlje

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slâːʋʎe/
  • Hyphenation: slav‧lje

Noun

slȃvlje n (Cyrillic spelling сла̑вље)

  1. celebration (a social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party)
  2. celebration (the formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament)
    euharistijsko slavljecelebration of the Eucharist

Declension

Declension of slavlje
singular plural
nominative slavlje slavlja
genitive slavlja slavlja
dative slavlju slavljima
accusative slavlje slavlja
vocative slavlje slavlja
locative slavlju slavljima
instrumental slavljem slavljima

Further reading

  • slavlje”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Matea Birtić et al. (2012), “slavlje”, in Školski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [School Dictionary of the Croatian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics]; Školska knjiga