дилкуша

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دلكشا (dilküşa), from Persian دل (del, “heart”) + گشودن (gušadan, “to open”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dǐlkuʃa/
• Hyphenation: дил‧ку‧ша

Noun

дѝлкуша f (Latin spelling dìlkuša)

1. (regional) songbird, usually nightingale

References

• “дилкуша”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024