the Slavic language of the Serbs and Croats; the Serbian dialect is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the Croatian dialect is usually written in the Roman alphabet
croat
Hyphenation
Cro·at
Turkish pronunciation
krōät
Pronunciation
/ˈkrōˌät/ /ˈkroʊˌɑːt/
Etymology
[ 'krO-"at also 'krO(-&am ] (noun.) circa 1702. From Medieval Latin Croata, from Proto-Slavic *xorvat- (“Croat”), Croatian autonym, itself probably of non-Slavic origin; probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. Compare cravat.