nimfa

See also: nimfă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnim.fə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnim.fa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

nimfa f (plural nimfes)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) nymph (water, forest or mountain spirit)
2. (anatomy) labia minora
3. nymph (insect larva)

Related terms

• nimfal
• paranimf

Further reading

• “nimfa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

nimfa

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nympha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲim.fa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -imfa
• Syllabification: nim‧fa

Noun

nimfa f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) nymph (water, forest, or mountain spirit)
2. (entomology) nymph (insect larva)
3. cockatiel

Declension

Declension of nimfa

	singular	plural
nominative	nimfa	nimfy
genitive	nimfy	nimf
dative	nimfie	nimfom
accusative	nimfę	nimfy
instrumental	nimfą	nimfami
locative	nimfie	nimfach
vocative	nimfo	nimfy

Further reading

• nimfa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nimfa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nîːmfa/
• Hyphenation: nim‧fa

Noun

nȋmfa f (Cyrillic spelling ни̑мфа)

1. (mythology) nymph
2. nymph (insect larva)

Declension

Declension of nimfa

	singular	plural
nominative	nȋmfa	nimfe
genitive	nimfe	nȋmfā / nȋmfī
dative	nimfi	nimfama
accusative	nimfu	nimfe
vocative	nimfo	nimfe
locative	nimfi	nimfama
instrumental	nimfom	nimfama