čavka

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čavъka. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃâːʋka/
  • Hyphenation: čav‧ka

Noun

čȃvka f (Cyrillic spelling ча̑вка)

  1. jackdaw

Declension

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čavka”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 123

Further reading

  • čavka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025