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Macedonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı) (Turkish çarşı), from Persian چارسو.
Pronunciation
Noun
чаршија • (čaršija) f (relational adjective чаршиски)
- downtown
- part of the city or street lined with shops and workshops, especially as one in a former Ottoman territory, built in Ottoman times
Declension
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)
- business district, downtown
- (colloquial) people
Declension