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)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) dragon
  2. (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) type of mythical creature similar to dragon

Declension

Declension of aždaha
singular plural
nominative aždaha aždahe
genitive aždahe aždaha
dative aždahi aždahama
accusative aždahu aždahe
vocative aždaho aždahe
locative aždahi aždahama
instrumental aždahom aždahama

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