dokazima

Dokazima is a word appearing in several South Slavic languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin). In these languages, dokaz means “proof,” and dokazima is its dative and instrumental plural form. The dative is used after prepositions meaning “to” or “for,” while the instrumental can express “with” or “by.” Example sentences include “Sve dokazima su prihvaćena” (All proofs are accepted) and “Razgovarali smo dokazima” (We discussed by means of proofs). In linguistic literature, dokazima is frequently cited in grammatical analyses of case inflection and in studies of argument structure, where it serves as a canonical illustration of plural dative usage.

Outside its linguistic role, dokazima is occasionally used as a personal name or surname, particularly in Japan. Japanese individuals bearing the name are reported in local records, but the name remains uncommon. In Japan, the characters ドカジマ are typically rendered in katakana and have no direct connection to the Slavic meaning of the word.

The term appears in online corpora such as the Croatian National Corpus and the Serbian National Corpus, where it is indexed under the lemma dokaz. Because its spelling matches the Slavic case form, it sometimes draws the attention of language learners and of automated tools that parse morphological patterns.

In summary, dokazima functions primarily as a grammatical case form in South Slavic languages and, to a lesser extent, as a Japanese personal name.