Vlaški/Žejanski/Istro-Romanian – Croatian Dictionary
bât
-u, -ure m (S), m (Ž)
štap; prut; ân dróbân bất (Ž) - tanak štap; més-av dinr-u bất (Ž) - (ot)išao je po štap; i̭é s-av aşå osuşít ke av postanít ca şi bất uscåt (Ž) - on je tako smršavio da je postao suh kao štap.
båte
tr. (J, Ž)
tući, istući, udariti; måi̭a te va båte (Ž) - majka će te (is)tući; lę́mne, báteţ ómiri! (Ž) - drva, (is)tucite ljude!; i̭é vo bíre batút-a (S) - on ju je dobro istukao; i̭elʼ feţóru batút-a (S) - oni su (is)tukli dječaka; båte pre úşe (Ž) - lupati na vrata; v. abåte.
båtinę
-a, -e, -ele ž (J)
velika lokva (lokvetina); faţén o måre scúlʼinę, o måre båtinę pa åpę víre cân ploi̭ę́ (S) - napravimo veliku jamu [rupu u zemlji], veliku lokvu pa voda nadođe kada pada kiša.
baví se
povr. (J)
baviti se; ân vę́ra i̭o me bavés cu campåńa (J) - ljeti se ja bavim poljem (obrađivanjem zemlje).
When searching words, you can paste in accented characters/diacritics, or type the characters with no diacritics. (For example: To find the verb “acaţå” paste in “acaţå” or type in “acata” without the special character ţ and diacritic ˚.) If the word is reflexive, you can leave the “se” off. (For example: If you search for the verb “abåte,” the search will return both the transitive “abåte” and the reflexive “abåte se.”
This is a handy guide for nonspecifics in the graphical system used to write the Vlach or Žejanski (ie, Istrian) language in this dictionary. We provide approximate Croatian and English voice equivalents for the letters most often used in the dictionary.
Diacritics combining with letters for different vowels:
́́´ Marks the placement of the word stress.
˜ Marks a nasalized vowel.
We refer linguists and other specialists to pp. 9-15 and pp. 246-255 of the original print dictionary—Istrorumunjski-hrvatski rječnik (s gramatikom i tekstovima) [insert hyperlink to Bibliography] by August Kovačec—for a detailed and technical introduction to the transcription system used in the dictionary. In the main,Kovačec’s spelling system follows the long, while rather inconsistent, tradition of spelling used by Romanian dialectologists to represent the language, while adding some special symbols to it. There is no standardized and/or agreed upon version of the spelling for the language. Kovčec’s transcription is largely phonological (i.e., it represents only distinctive sounds), but also often indicates characteristic phonetic variations.
