frenđija

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرنگی (firengi, “Western European”) + -ija, the former from Persian فرنگی (farangi), ultimately from Old French franc (“Frank”).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /frěnd͡ʑija/
  • Hyphenation: fren‧đi‧ja

Noun[edit]

frènđija f (Cyrillic spelling фрѐнђија)

  1. tower built in a ‘Frankish’ or Western European style

References[edit]

  • Pero Budmani, editor (1887-1891), “frènđija”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 71
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