padobran

Serbo-Croatian

padobran

Etymology

From padati +‎ -o- +‎ braniti.

First attested in 1842, in the Deutsch-Ilirisches Wörterbuch by Ivan Mažuranić and Jakov Užarević.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâdobraːn/
• Hyphenation: pa‧do‧bran

Noun

pȁdobrān m (Cyrillic spelling па̏добра̄н)

1. parachute
   • 1842, Ivan Mažuranić, Jakov Užarević, Deutsch-ilirisches Wörterbuch‎^[1]:

Declension

Declension of padobran

	singular	plural
nominative	padobran	padobrani
genitive	padobrana	padobrana
dative	padobranu	padobranima
accusative	padobran	padobrane
vocative	padobrane	padobrani
locative	padobranu	padobranima
instrumental	padobranom	padobranima

See also

• kišobran
• suncobran

Further reading

• “padobran”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024