molba

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From moliti (“to request, plead”) +‎ -ba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒlba/

Noun

mòlba f (Cyrillic spelling мо̀лба)

1. request, plea (written or verbal)

   Imam samo jednu molbu. ― I only have one request.

2. (Croatia, formal) application (a formal written request)

Declension

Declension of molba

	singular	plural
nominative	mòlba	molbe
genitive	molbe	mólbī / mólbā
dative	molbi	molbama
accusative	molbu	molbe
vocative	molbo	molbe
locative	molbi	molbama
instrumental	molbom	molbama

Related terms

• mòliti

Further reading

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