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English
Noun
četnik
- Alternative spelling of chetnik
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From četa (“troop/crew”) + -nik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃêtniːk/
- Hyphenation: čet‧nik
Noun
čȅtnīk m (Cyrillic spelling че̏тнӣк)
- (historical) chetnik (a member of a Serbian royalist army band or movement)
- (colloquial, Croatia, Bosnia, derogatory) a Serbian far-right sympathizer (nationalist, chauvinist or fascist)
- (by extension, Croatia, Bosnia, derogatory, ethnic slur) a Serb or a person of Serbian descent
Declension
Further reading
- “četnik”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024