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)

  1. (regional) velvet [17th century]
  2. (regional, by extension) marigold (Tagetes)
  3. (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
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