peraja

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From pero +‎ -aja.

Noun

perája f (Cyrillic spelling пера́ја)

1. fin, flipper (appendage of a fish)
2. swim fin, flipper (finlike swimming accessories worn on the feet)

Declension

Declension of peraja

	singular	plural
nominative	perája	peráje
genitive	perájē	perájā
dative	peráji	perájama
accusative	peráju	peráje
vocative	pȅrājo	peráje
locative	peráji	perájama
instrumental	perájōm	perájama

Derived terms

• perajar

References

• Skok, Petar (1972) “pèro”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 641
• Vukušić, Stjepan, Zoričić, Ivan, Graselli-Vukušić, Marija (2007) Naglasak u hrvatskome književnom jeziku (Velika hrvatska gramatika; 4), Zagreb: Globus, →ISBN, §259, page 75