plavka

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From plav +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plâːʋka/
• Hyphenation: plav‧ka

Noun

plȃvka f (Cyrillic spelling пла̑вка)

1. blonde woman

Further reading

• “plavka” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovak

plávka azúrová
(Russula azurea)

Etymology

From plavý (“blond, pale-yellow, fawn; (here in assumed meaning like in Serbo-Croatian:) bluish”) +‎ -ka, from the bluish colour of the cap in some specimens.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplaːu̯.ka]
• Rhymes: -ka

Noun

plavka f (nominative plural plávky, genitive plural plávok, declension pattern of žena)

1. fungus belonging to the genus Russula

Declension

Declension of plavka

	singular	plural
nominative	plávka	plávky
genitive	plávky	plávok
dative	plávke	plávkam
accusative	plávku	plávky
locative	plávke	plávkach
instrumental	plávkou	plávkami

Related terms

• plavý
• plav
• holubinka

Further reading

• “plávka”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024