kadifa

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قطیفه (katife, kadife).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kadǐːfa/
• Hyphenation: ka‧di‧fa

Noun

kadífa f (Cyrillic spelling кади́фа) (regional)

1. velvet [17th century]

   Synonyms: bàršūn, sȁmt, vèlūr, plȉš

2. marigold (Tagetes)
3. amaranth (Amaranthus)

Declension

Declension of kadifa

	singular	plural
nominative	kadifa	kadife
genitive	kadife	kadifa
dative	kadifi	kadifama
accusative	kadifu	kadife
vocative	kadifo	kadife
locative	kadifi	kadifama
instrumental	kadifom	kadifama

Alternative forms

• kadif, kadiva, kadipa

References

• “kadifa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kadífa”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 728