kotar
See also: Kotar and kotär
English
Noun
kotar (plural kotars)
- (historical) A kind of administrative or territorial unit in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria-Hungary, and later in Croatia, Yugoslavia, etc.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kotarъ.[1] Only attested in South Slavic; compare dialectal Bulgarian котар (kotar).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kôtaːr/
- Hyphenation: ko‧tar
Noun
kȍtār m anim (Cyrillic spelling ко̏та̄р)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kotar | kotarevi |
| genitive | kotara | kotareva |
| dative | kotaru | kotarevima |
| accusative | kotara | kotareve |
| vocative | kotaru | kotarevi |
| locative | kotaru | kotarevima |
| instrumental | kotarom | kotarevima |
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016), “kotar”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 488
Further reading
- “kotar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025