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čaršija

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı), from Persian چارسو (čârsu). First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǎrʃija/
  • Hyphenation: čar‧ši‧ja
  • Rhymes: -ija

Noun

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čàršija f (Cyrillic spelling ча̀ршија)

  1. business district, downtown
  2. (colloquial) people

Declension

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Declension of čaršija
singular plural
nominative čaršija čaršije
genitive čaršije čaršija
dative čaršiji čaršijama
accusative čaršiju čaršije
vocative čaršijo čaršije
locative čaršiji čaršijama
instrumental čaršijom čaršijama

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čaršija”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 121
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