bacač

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From bacati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎt͡saːt͡ʃ/
• Hyphenation: ba‧cač

Noun

bàcāč m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ца̄ч)

1. thrower
2. any of a variety of weapons that fire large projectiles, missiles, or flammable substances: rocket launcher, mortar, flamethrower
   • c. 1942, authorship disputed, “Na Kordunu grob do groba” (lyrics) as published in 2017, Nenad Simić-Tajka, Nepročitana knjiga:

     Nemoj plakat, majko stara,
     pusti sina da odmara.
     Teži su mi tvoji plači
     nego bombe i bacači.

     Don’t cry, old mother,
     let your son rest:
     Your tears are harder for me to bear
     than bombs and rocket launchers.

3. (baseball) pitcher
4. (cricket) bowler

Declension

Declension of bacač

	singular	plural
nominative	bàcāč	bacači
genitive	bacáča	bacača
dative	bacaču	bacačima
accusative	bacača	bacače
vocative	bacaču	bacači
locative	bacaču	bacačima
instrumental	bacačem	bacačima

Further reading

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