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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شاهین (şahin), from Persian شاهین (šâhin), from Middle Persian. Akin to Šáhin and šahìndžija.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃǎːxin/
- Hyphenation: ša‧hin
Noun
šáhin m (Cyrillic spelling ша́хин)
- falcon (trained for hunting)
Declension
References
- “šahin”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 578