plahta

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plaxъta (“cloth, sheet, blanket, canopy”). Cognate with Slovene plȃhta (“blanket”), Ukrainian пла́хта (pláxta, “checkered fabric”), Czech plachta (“sail, canvas, cover”), Polish płachta (“row”), Upper Sorbian płachta (“sheet”), Lower Sorbian płachta (“sheet”), Polabian plóchtă (“handkerchief, tablecloth, sheet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plâxta/

Noun

plȁhta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̏хта)

1. (regional, chiefly Croatia) bedsheet

   Synonym: čaršaf

Declension

Declension of plahta

	singular	plural
nominative	plahta	plahte
genitive	plahte	plahta
dative	plahti	plahtama
accusative	plahtu	plahte
vocative	plahto	plahte
locative	plahti	plahtama
instrumental	plahtom	plahtama

Further reading

• “plahta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024