glava

See also: glåvă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlǎːʋa/
  • Hyphenation: gla‧va

Noun

gláva f (Cyrillic spelling гла́ва)

  1. (anatomy) head
  2. chapter (section of a book)
  3. head, mind; brains (a source of mental ability and intelligence)
    Ne znam zašto sam to napravio. Glava mi se ugasila na sekundu.I don't know why I did that. My head turned off for a second.
  4. head, chief, chairman, chairperson (person who leads an organized group)
    glava kućehead of the household

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • glava” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *golva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlàːʋa/

Noun

gláva f

  1. head
    Kar ti v glavi ostane, ti nihče ne vzame.What is in your head nobody can take away.

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. gláva
gen. sing. gláve
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
gláva glávi gláve
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
gláve gláv gláv
dative
(dajȃlnik)
glávi glávama glávam
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
glávo glávi gláve
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
glávi glávah glávah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
glávo glávama glávami
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing. gláva
gen. sing. glavé
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
gláva glavé glavé
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
glavé gláv gláv
dative
(dajȃlnik)
glávi glaváma glavàm
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
glavó glavé glavé
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
glávi glavàh glavàh
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
glavó glaváma glavámi

Derived terms

Further reading

  • glava”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • glava”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references
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