Zvuka

Zvuka is a form found in several Slavic languages that relates to sound or noise. It is the genitive singular of the masculine noun zvuk, which means “sound” or “noise.” The genitive zvuka is common in everyday expressions, indicating possession, quantity, or absence of sound, as in bez zvuka (“without sound”) and zvuk zvona (“the sound of the bell”). In transliterated texts from languages such as Russian or Ukrainian, the same form often appears in similar syntactic roles.

In linguistic and acoustic contexts, zvuk and its variants are used to discuss phonetics, speech, and auditory phenomena. The root is broadly productive across Slavic languages; related forms include Russian zvuk, Ukrainian zvuk, Polish dźwięk, and others, all ultimately tracing to a common Proto-Slavic root *zvukъ that means sound or noise. The semantic field encompasses everyday audibility, musical tone, noise, and the qualities of sounds such as pitch, timbre, and intensity.

Etymology and cognates: The word zvuk and its genitive zvuka descend from Proto-Slavic *zvukъ. This root is widely reflected across Slavic languages, reinforcing a shared core meaning related to audible phenomena. In modern usage, zvuka functions primarily as a grammatical form within sentences that reference sound, its presence, or its absence, and appears in dictionaries, grammars, and educational materials discussing sound and hearing.