janičiar

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Slovak

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یڭیچری (yeñiçeri, “new troops”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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janičiar m pers (female equivalent janičiarka, related adjective janičiarsky)

  1. (historical) janissary (member of Turkish elite infantry)
  2. (derogatory, rare) renegade

Declension

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Declension of janičiar (pattern chlap)
singularplural
nominativejaničiarjaničiari
genitivejaničiarajaničiarov
dativejaničiarovijaničiarom
accusativejaničiarajaničiarov
locativejaničiarovijaničiaroch
instrumentaljaničiaromjaničiarmi
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References

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  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “janičiar”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 240

Further reading

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  • “janičiar”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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