žala

See also: zala, zaļa, zaļā, and żalą

Czech edit

Alternative forms edit

žnula

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈʒala]

Participle edit

žala

inflection of žnout:
1. feminine singular past active participle
2. neuter plural past active participle

Lithuanian edit

žala on Lithuanian Wikipedia

Žala

Etymology edit

Cognate with Latvian zàlba (“damage”), dialectal Russian назо́ла (nazóla, “anguish”). Possibly linked to Irish galar (“sickness”), or alternatively with the root of žãlias (“green”).

Noun edit

žalà f (plural žãlos) stress pattern 4

damage, harm

Declension edit

Declension of žalà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	žalà	žãlos
genitive (kilmininkas)	žalõs	žalų̃
dative (naudininkas)	žãlai	žalóms
accusative (galininkas)	žãlą	žalàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	žalà	žalomìs
locative (vietininkas)	žalojè	žalosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	žãla	žãlos

Interjection edit

žalà

what a pity
Synonym: gaila

References edit

“žala”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
Derksen, Rick (2015) “žala”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “назо́ла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Serbo-Croatian edit

Noun edit

žala (Cyrillic spelling жала)

genitive singular of žal