kolovoz
Serbo-Croatian
FWOTD – 29 August 2017
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolovozъ (“rut, wheel track”). Equivalent to kȍlo (“wheel, cart wheel”) + vȏz (“cart load”), vòziti (“to drive”), thus denoting the month in which mowed grain is being carried.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kôloʋoːz/
- Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧voz
Noun
kȍlovōz m (Cyrillic spelling ко̏лово̄з)
- carriageway
- Synonym: (Croatian) kolnik
- (Croatia) August
- Synonyms: (Bosnian) àugust, (Serbian) àvgust
- u kolovozu ― in August
- petnaestog kolovoza ― on the fifteenth of August
- 2015, Pavao Pavličić, Diksilend:
- Mora biti da je bio kolovoz, doba kad Vukovar miriše na svježe paprike što se prodaju na tržnici, na pečene što cvrče na ...
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Declension
See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) m(j)eseci gregorijanskog kalendara; januar/siječanj, februar/veljača, mart/ožujak, april/travanj, maj/svibanj, jun/juni/lipanj, jul/juli/srpanj, avgust/august/kolovoz, septembar/rujan, oktobar/listopad, novembar/studeni, decembar/prosinac (Category: sh:Gregorian calendar months)
Further reading
- “kolovoz” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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