racun

Racun, written with diacritics as račun in Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian, is a noun in South Slavic languages with several related meanings: a bill or invoice issued for goods or services; a bank or financial account; and the act or result of calculating. The unaccented form racun is common in non-specialist texts.

Etymology: The word derives from a root related to counting and calculation; related terms appear across Slavic languages to express counting, accounting, and billing, for example in Ukrainian рахунок (rahunok) for calculation or invoice.

Financial usage: As a bill, račun is the document listing charges; in everyday speech one might ask for the "račun" in a restaurant to pay. As an account, it denotes a bank or financial account, such as tekući račun (checking/current account) or štedni račun (savings account). In accounting, "knjiga računa" refers to a ledger of individual accounts, and "računovodstvo" is the field of accounting.

Other uses: In mathematics and computing, "račun" means calculation or computation; the verb "računati" means to count or to calculate, and "računanje" denotes the process. In modern language, "račun" can also mean a user account online, as in "račun na internetu." The meaning of the term is highly context-dependent, spanning everyday commerce, finance, and formal accounting.