počinak

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From po- + Proto-Slavic *čiti, *činǫti. Cognate with Bulgarian почивка (počivka, “rest”).

Noun

pòčinak m (Cyrillic spelling по̀чинак)

1. rest, the state of resting
   • 1890, Nikola Tordinac, Odabrane crtice i pripoviesti, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, page 119:

     Bilo noći, bilo danju, ili pri poslu ili na počinku, vaviek ga iste muke mučile, a te muke bio stari kožuh.

     Either at night or by day, at work or at rest, he was always troubled by the same worries, and that worries were the old sheepskin.

2. sleep, the rest of sleeping

   poći na počinak ― to go to bed, to sleep

Declension

Declension of počinak

	singular	plural
nominative	počinak	počinci
genitive	počinka	počinākā
dative	počinku	počincima
accusative	počinak	počinke
vocative	počinku	počinci
locative	počinku	počincima
instrumental	počinkom	počincima