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Macedonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آولو (avlu, avlı), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- + *-leh₂.
Pronunciation
Noun
авлија • (avlija) f
- yard
- fence
Declension
Further reading
- Belčev, Tole (2016) “авлија”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 14
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آولو (avlu, avlı), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- + *-leh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎʋlija/
- Hyphenation: ав‧ли‧ја
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
а̀влија f (Latin spelling àvlija)
- yard, front yard
- Synonym: дво̀рӣште
Declension
Further reading
- “авлија”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024