prozora

Prozora is a grammatical form found in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian. It is not a separate dictionary entry but a declined form of the noun prozor, which means window. In this system, prozora most often appears as the genitive singular form and, in some dialects or older texts, as a genitive plural form. The nominative plural of prozor is prozori.

Etymology traces the word prozor to Turkish influence in the Balkans. The base term prozor developed under Slavic phonology after contact with the Ottoman language, with the form prozora emerging as part of standard declension patterns in these languages. The related word for “window” in the direct nominative form remains prozor in singular and prozori in plural.

Usage and grammar: Prozora functions as a case form rather than as a standalone lexical item. Common examples include nema prozora (there is no window) and bez prozora (without a window), where prozora appears in the genitive singular. When using adjectives with a window, the adnominal phrase typically employs the genitive form as well, for example, velikog prozora (of a large window) rather than a simple nominative construction.

See also: Prozor, the base noun meaning window; Prozor-Rama, a toponym in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Turkish loanwords in Balkan languages.