merdevine

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مردیون (merdiven), from Persian نردبان (nardabân).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mêrdeʋine/

Noun

mȅrdevine f pl (Cyrillic spelling ме̏рдевине)

  1. (Bosnia, Serbia) (plural only) ladder
    Synonym: ljȅstve

Declension

Declension of merdevine
plural
nominative merdevine
genitive merdevina
dative merdevinama
accusative merdevine
vocative merdevine
locative merdevinama
instrumental merdevinama

Further reading

  • “ме̏рдивене”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2025
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