jastuk

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish یاصدق (yastık). Compare obsolete or dialectal Bulgarian ястък (jastǎk, “couch, bed (in agriculture)”), Albanian jastëk.

Noun

jàstuk m (Cyrillic spelling ја̀стук)

1. pillow

   Na njegovoj postelji, na jastuku na kojem spava, ugledala je nekoga drugoga.

   On his bed, on the pillow that he sleeps on, she saw somebody else.

2. cushion

Declension

Declension of jastuk

	singular	plural
nominative	jastuk	jastuci
genitive	jastuka	jastuka
dative	jastuku	jastucima
accusative	jastuk	jastuke
vocative	jastuče	jastuci
locative	jastuku	jastucima
instrumental	jastukom	jastucima

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:jastuk.

Synonyms

• (Croatia) uzglavlje, blazina, perina
• kušin

Further reading

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