živa

See also: Živa and жива

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From živa, indefinite feminine form of živ (“alive, lively”). Compare Macedonian жива (živa), Slovene živo srebro, semantically English quicksilver, Latin argentum vivum and Persian جیوه‎ (jive, “mercury”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʒîʋa/
  • Hyphenation: ži‧va

Noun

žȉva f (Cyrillic spelling жи̏ва)

  1. (uncountable) mercury

Declension
Declension of živa
singular
nominative živa
genitive žive
dative živi
accusative živu
vocative živo
locative živi
instrumental živom

Adjective

živa

  1. inflection of živ:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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