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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جبا (caba) (Turkish caba), from Arabic جَبَى (jabā, “to collect, to levy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒâba/
- Hyphenation: џа‧ба
Adverb
џа̏ба (Latin spelling džȁba)
- (regional) free, for free, gratis
- (regional) cheap, inexpensive, affordable
- (regional) in vain, futile
- (regional, intensifier) indeed, really
Usage notes
See џа̏бе̄.
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Further reading
- “џаба”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2024
- “џаба”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
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