лопта

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lopъta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôpta/
• Hyphenation: лоп‧та

Noun

ло̏пта f (Latin spelling lȍpta)

1. ball

Usage notes

The term лопта is almost always prefixed with the adjective form of the sport it is used for, eg. кошаркашка лопта to denote a basketball. In common parlance, however, two balls (the football and the basketball) have their own nicknames: the football is known as the бубамара ("ladybug") due to the Adidas Telstar's black and white panels resembling the ladybug's back spots, while the basketball is known as the "basketara", which derives from the term "basket", a nickname for basketball as a sport itself that is common in continental Europe.

Declension

Declension of лопта

	singular	plural
nominative	ло̏пта	лопте
genitive	лопте	ло̑пта̄/ ло̑птӣ
dative	лопти	лоптама
accusative	лопту	лопте
vocative	лопто	лопте
locative	лопти	лоптама
instrumental	лоптом	лоптама

References

• “лопта”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025