камрикуша

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناریه قوشی (kanarya quşu), with semantic shift.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kamrikuʃa/
  • Hyphenation: кам‧ри‧ку‧ша

Noun

камрикуша f (Latin spelling kamrikuša)

  1. A fictional large bird featuring in South Slavic folktales.
    • 1870, anonymous author, Bosanske narodne pripovjedke:
      ptica kamrikuša koja je tako velika bila da je mogla końa i čovjeka ponijeti
      the kamrikuša bird, which was so big that it could carry a horse or a person

References

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    Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kamrikuša”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 814