чаршија

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Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı) (Turkish çarşı), from Persian چارسو.

Pronunciation

Noun

чаршија (čaršijaf (relational adjective чаршиски)

  1. downtown
  2. part of the city or street lined with shops and workshops, especially as one in a former Ottoman territory, built in Ottoman times

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Derived terms

References

  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “чаршија”, 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 199

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı), from Persian چارسو (čârsu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǎrʃija/
  • Hyphenation: чар‧ши‧ја
  • Rhymes: -ija

Noun

ча̀ршија f (Latin spelling čàršija)

  1. business district, downtown
  2. (colloquial) people

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