buha

See also: Buha, buhă, and buhã

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• bùva (Serbia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *blъxa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔxa/
• Hyphenation: bu‧ha

Noun

bùha f (Cyrillic spelling бу̀ха)

1. (Croatia, Bosnia) flea

Declension

Declension of buha

	singular	plural
nominative	bùha	buhe
genitive	buhe	búhā
dative	busi	buhama
accusative	buhu	buhe
vocative	buho	buhe
locative	busi	buhama
instrumental	buhom	buhama

Further reading

• “buha”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puqaya with irregular voicing, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqaya, from Proto-Austronesian *buqaya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buɣa/

Noun

buha

1. crocodile

Further reading

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *buqaya