čelebi

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See also: çelebi and Çelebi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چلبی (çelebi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃelěbi/
  • Hyphenation: če‧le‧bi

Adjective

čelèbi (Cyrillic spelling челѐби) (indeclinable)

  1. (archaic) gallant, noble, lordly (person or object)
    • 1867, Bogoljub Petranović, editor, Српске народне пјесме из Босне (женске). Књинга прва, Сарајево, 171. Понос момка и дјевојке, page 164:
      Знаш ли, драги, жалосна ти мајка! / Кад се од нас проћи не могаше [...] А од мога челеби-фесића, / А од твога челеби сарука[...]?
      Znaš li, dragi, žalosna ti majka! / Kad se od nas proći ne mogaše A od moga čelebi-fesića, / A od tvoga čelebi saruka?
      Do you remember, my dear, woe to your mother / When you could not let go of me Of my lordly fez, / Of your lordly turban?
    • 1903, Stevan Sremac, Зона Замфирова, Београд: Српска књижевна задруга, published 1907, pages 19–20:
      Имала је мужа којега је волела и обожавала, јер је и телом и душом био лепота од човека. [...] У чаршији је имао неколико епитета: челеби-Ђорђија, дилбер-Ђорђија, ашик-Ђорђија.
      Imala je muža kojega je volela i obožavala, jer je i telom i dušom bio lepota od čoveka. U čaršiji je imao nekoliko epiteta: čelebi-Đorđija, dilber-Đorđija, ašik-Đorđija.
      She had a husband whom she loved and adored, because both in his body and his soul he was a beautiful man. Among the people he had several epithets: gallant Đorđija, beautiful Đorđija, lover Đorđija.

Derived terms

References

  • Đuro Daničić, editor (1880–1882), “čelebi”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 926
  • “челеби”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1976, published 1990, page 857
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 169
  • Skok, Petar (1971) “čelebi”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 304
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