prepelica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *perpelъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prêpelit͡sa/
• Hyphenation: pre‧pe‧li‧ca

Noun

prȅpelica f (Cyrillic spelling пре̏пелица)

1. quail (Any of various small game birds of the family Phasianidae or of the family Odontophoridae)

Declension

Declension of prepelica

	singular	plural
nominative	prepelica	prepelice
genitive	prepelice	prepelica
dative	prepelici	prepelicama
accusative	prepelicu	prepelice
vocative	prepelice	prepelice
locative	prepelici	prepelicama
instrumental	prepelicom	prepelicama

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *perpelъ.

Noun

prepelíca f

1. quail (any of various small game birds of the family Phasianidae or of the family Odontophoridae)

Further reading

• “prepelica”, 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

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *perpelъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɛpɛlìːt͡sa/

Noun

prepelíca f

1. quail (Any of various small game birds of the family Phasianidae or of the family Odontophoridae)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	prepelíca
gen. sing.	prepelíce
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	prepelíca	prepelíci	prepelíce
genitive (rodȋlnik)	prepelíce	prepelíc	prepelíc
dative (dajȃlnik)	prepelíci	prepelícama	prepelícam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	prepelíco	prepelíci	prepelíce
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	prepelíci	prepelícah	prepelícah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	prepelíco	prepelícama	prepelícami

Further reading

• “prepelica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran