oblaku

oblaku is a grammatical form of the noun oblak, the common word for cloud in several South Slavic languages. It is most often the singular dative form in Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian, where it marks an indirect object or direction toward the cloud. In Slovenian, oblaku appears as a case form of oblak and can occur in contexts that align with dative or locative usage, depending on the syntactic construction. The form is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *oblakъ and has cognates across related languages.

Usage in everyday language spans meteorology, weather reporting, and discussions of cloud-related phenomena. For example, in Croatian, a sentence like Dajem podatke oblaku translates to “I give data to the cloud,” illustrating oblaku’s role as a recipient in a datival construction. In Slovenian and other languages, the base noun oblak is also used to refer to cloud computing, a sense that has entered technical and media discourse via phrases such as “cloud storage” and “saving to the cloud,” with the inflected forms adapting to the surrounding grammar.

The word oblaku is not a separate lexical entry but a form of the root oblak used in sentences requiring a dative or related case. As cloud-related terminology expands globally, oblak remains the standard term for cloud in many South Slavic languages, both for weather and for digital cloud services.

See also: Oblak, Cloud computing, Slavic languages.