Jump to content

šahin

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: şahin and Şahin

Serbo-Croatian

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شاهین (şahin), from Persian شاهین (šâhin), from Middle Persian. Akin to Šáhin and šahìndžija.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ʃǎːxin/
  • Hyphenation: ša‧hin

Noun

[edit]

šáhin m (Cyrillic spelling ша́хин)

  1. falcon (trained for hunting)

Declension

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • šahin”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 578