aždaha
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اژدها (ejdehâ), from Persian اژدها (eždehâ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʒdǎxa/
Noun
aždàha f (Cyrillic spelling ажда̀ха)
- (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) dragon
- (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) type of mythical creature similar to dragon
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aždaha | aždahe |
| genitive | aždahe | aždaha |
| dative | aždahi | aždahama |
| accusative | aždahu | aždahe |
| vocative | aždaho | aždahe |
| locative | aždahi | aždahama |
| instrumental | aždahom | aždahama |
Related terms
Further reading
- Reković, Ibrahim (2013) Rječnik plavsko-gusinjskoga govora [Dictionary of the Plav-Gusinje dialect], Podgorica: Institut za crnogorski jezik i književnost, →ISBN, page 20
- Isaković, Alija (1993) “aždaha”, in Rječnik karakteristične leksike u bosanskome jeziku [Dictionary of characteristic words of the Bosnian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Wuppertal: Bambi, →ISBN, page 55