djelatan

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From djȅlati (to act; to produce) +‎ -at +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /djêlaːtan/ (Croatia), /djělatan/ (Serbia), /djêlatan/ (Serbia)
  • Hyphenation: dje‧la‧tan

Verb

djȅlātan (Croatia) (Cyrillic spelling дје̏ла̄тан, definite djȅlātnī)
djèlatan or djȅlatan (Serbia) (Cyrillic spelling дјѐлатан or дје̏латан, definite djèlatnī or djȅlatnī) (Ijekavian)

  1. active
  2. effective

Further reading

  • djȅlātan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • djȅlātan”, in Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga standardnog jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Školska knjiga, 2015
  • Miroslav Nikolić, editor (2011), “djèlatan i djȅlatan”, in Речник српскога језика [Rečnik srpskoga jezika, Dictionary of the Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Измењено и поправљено издање [Revised and Corrected Edition], Novi Sad: Matica srpska, page 248
  • Stjepan Vukušić, Ivan Zoročić, Marija Grasselli-Vukušić (2007), “djȅlātan”, in Naglasak u hrvatskome književnom jeziku [Accent in the Croatian Literary Language] (Velika hrvatska gramatika; book 4) (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Nakladni Zavod Globus, page 263
  • Matasović, Ranko (2016), “djȅlātan”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 172
  • Matea Birtić et al. (2012), “djȅlātan”, in Školski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [School Dictionary of the Croatian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje [Institute of the Croatian Language and Linguistics]; Školska knjiga