шахин

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شاهین (şahin), from Persian شاهین (šâhin), from Middle Persian. Akin to Ша́хин and шахѝнџија.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃǎːxin/
  • Hyphenation: ша‧хин

Noun

ша́хин m (Latin spelling šáhin)

  1. falcon (trained for hunting)

Declension

References

  • шахин”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 578