kadifa
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قدیفه (kadife), قطیفه (katife) (compare Turkish kadife), from Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kadǐːfa/
- Hyphenation: ka‧di‧fa
Noun
kadífa f (Cyrillic spelling кади́фа)
- (regional) velvet [17th century]
- (regional, by extension) marigold (Tagetes)
- (regional, by extension) amaranth (Amaranthus)
Declension
Declension of kadifa
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kadifa | kadife |
| genitive | kadife | kadifa |
| dative | kadifi | kadifama |
| accusative | kadifu | kadife |
| vocative | kadifo | kadife |
| locative | kadifi | kadifama |
| instrumental | kadifom | kadifama |
Alternative forms
- kadif
- kadiva
- kadipa
References
- “kadifa” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “kadífa”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 728