чаршија

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı) (Turkish çarşı), from Persian چارسو.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃarʃi(j)a]

Noun

чаршија • (čaršija) f (relational adjective чаршиски)

  1. downtown
  2. part of the city or street lined with shops and workshops, especially as one in a former Ottoman territory, built in Ottoman times

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “чаршија”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 199

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı), from Persian چارسو (čârsu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǎrʃija/
  • Hyphenation: чар‧ши‧ја
  • Rhymes: -ija

Noun

ча̀ршија f (Latin spelling čàršija)

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

Declension

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