žala

See also: zala, zaļa, zaļā, and żalą

Czech

Alternative forms

• žnula

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒala]

Participle

žala

1. inflection of žnout:
   1. feminine singular past active participle
   2. neuter plural past active participle

Lithuanian

Žala

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian zàlba (“damage”), Russian злой (zloj, “wicked, bad”) and dialectal Russian назо́ла (nazóla, “anguish”). Possibly linked to Irish galar (“sickness”), or alternatively with the root of žãlias (“green”). See English gall (“a type of sore”) for the former and gall (“bile”, etc.) for the latter.

Noun

žalà f (plural žãlos) stress pattern 4

1. damage, harm

Declension

Declension of žalà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	žalà	žãlos
genitive (kilmininkas)	žalõs	žalų̃
dative (naudininkas)	žãlai	žalóms
accusative (galininkas)	žãlą	žalàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	žalà	žalomìs
locative (vietininkas)	žalojè	žalosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	žãla	žãlos

Interjection

žalà

1. what a pity

   Synonym: gaila

References

• “žala”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “žala”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “назо́ла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

žala (Cyrillic spelling жала)

1. genitive singular of žal