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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شكمبه (şkembe), from Persian شکمبه (šekambe).
Pronunciation
Noun
škèmbe n (Cyrillic spelling шкѐмбе)
- tripe, rumen (bùrag) used for a dish, and the dish itself, often a soup, then also called škembíći
Declension
References
- “škembe”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
- “škembe”, 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 969