sirište

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sȉr (“cheese”, noun) +‎ -īšte (“suffix forming nouns of place”), for sȉrilo (“rennet”) is obtained from abomasa. With this thought also German Labmagen from Lab (“rennet”) +‎ Magen (“maw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sîriːʃte/

Noun

sȉrīšte n (Cyrillic spelling си̏рӣште)

1. abomasum, maw, the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.

Declension

Declension of sirište

	singular	plural
nominative	sȉrīšte	sȉrīšta
genitive	sȉrīšta	sȉrīštā
dative	sȉrīštu	sȉrīštima
accusative	sȉrīšte	sȉrīšta
vocative	sȉrīštu	sȉrīšta
locative	sȉrīštu	sȉrīštima
instrumental	sȉrīštem	sȉrīštima

Coordinate terms

• bùrāg m (“rumen, paunch”)
• kàpura f (“reticulum, bonnet”)
• lȉstavac m (“omasum, psalterium”)

References

• “sirište”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “sirište”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 5, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1973, published 1990, page 776