Croat

See also: croat and Croat.

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Croata, from Proto-Slavic *xorvatъ (“Croat”), the Croatian autonym. It, in turn, is probably of non-Slavic origin: it is probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. Compare cravat.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /kɹəʊæt/

Noun

Croat (countable and uncountable, plural Croats)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian citizenship or ethnicity.
Synonym: Croatian
(dated) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
(uncountable, uncommon) The Croatian lect.
- 2012, Alen Mattich, Zagreb Cowboy, →ISBN:
  It almost made him laugh. What could he possibly do in Ohio? Did Cleveland have a pressing need for secret policemen who spoke Croat?

Translations

citizen of Croatia or person of Croatian ethnicity

Armenian: խորվաթ (xorvatʿ)
Belarusian: харва́т m (xarvát), харва́тка f (xarvátka)
Catalan: croat (ca) m, croata (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 克羅地亞人 (zh), 克罗地亚人 (zh) (kèluódìyàrén)
Dutch: Kroaat (nl) m, Kroate f, Kroatische (nl) f
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} kroato
Faroese: kroati m
Finnish: kroatialainen (fi), kroaatti (fi)
French: Croate (fr) m or f
German: Kroate (de) m, Kroatin (de) f
Gottscheerish: Khərbot
Greek: Κροάτης (el) m (Kroátis)
Icelandic: Króati m
Irish: Crótach m
Italian: croato (it) m, croata (it) f

Japanese: クロアチア人 (kuroachia-jin)
Korean: 크로아티아인 (ko) (keuroatiain)
Lithuanian: kroatas (lt) m, kroatė (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Kroat m, Kroatin f
Polish: Chorwat (pl) m, Chorwatka (pl) f
Portuguese: croata (pt) m or f
Romanian: croat (ro) m, croată (ro) f
Russian: хорва́т (ru) m (xorvát), хорва́тка (ru) f (xorvátka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Хр̀ва̄т m, Хрва̀тица f
Roman: Hr̀vāt (sh) m, Hrvàtica f
Slovak: Chorvát f, Chorvátka f
Spanish: croata (es) m or f
Swedish: kroat (sv) c (male), kroatiska (sv) c (female)
Turkish: Hırvat (tr), Hırvatistanlı

language — see Croatian

Anagrams

actor, rocta