sluginja

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slǔɡiɲa/
  • Hyphenation: slu‧gi‧nja

Noun

slùginja f (Cyrillic spelling слу̀гиња, male equivalent slúga)

  1. (now derogatory) servant (female), maidservant
    • 1903 November, dr Fran S. Gundrum-Oriovčanin, “U Egiptu! (svršetak)”, in Hrvatski planinar‎[1], volume VI, numbers 11 and 12, Zagreb, Austria-Hungary: Hrvatsko planinarsko družtvo, page 87:
      U grob su za to stavljali razne žitarice, kojekakova jela i pića, da bude za slučaj potrebe pri ruci i metali bi kipove sluga i sluginja, da budu u blizini.
      That's why they would place various cereals, as well as different foods and beverages, in graves to be at hand in case of need, and they would also put statues of servants and maidservants, to be nearby.

Declension

Declension of sluginja
singular plural
nominative sluginja sluginje
genitive sluginje sluginja
dative sluginji sluginjama
accusative sluginju sluginje
vocative sluginjo sluginje
locative sluginji sluginjama
instrumental sluginjom sluginjama
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