rabota

French

Pronunciation

Verb

rabota

  1. third-person singular past historic of raboter

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *orbota (hard work, slavery) derived from *orbъ (slave), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ (to change or evolve status), the predecessor to *h₃órbʰos (orphan). Cognate with German Arbeit, Dutch arbeid, and Middle English arveth (difficult; hard).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǎbota/
  • Hyphenation: ra‧bo‧ta

Noun

ràbota f (Cyrillic spelling ра̀бота)

  1. (usually derogatory) work, labor, deed, doing
  2. (informal) any arduous work; drudgery, slog
  3. (informal) an unskilled menial job

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Synonyms

References

  • rabota” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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