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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish جكر (Turkish ciğer) + -ица.
Further from Persian جگر (jegar), from Proto-Indo-European *Hyékʷr̥ (“liver”), compare Latin iecur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒǐɡerit͡sa/
- Hyphenation: џи‧ге‧ри‧ца
- Rhymes: -it͡sa
Noun
џѝгерица f (Latin spelling džìgerica)
- liver
- (as a meal)
- Synonym: је̏трица
- (informal) (of a living being)
- Synonym: је̏тра
Further reading
- “џигерица”, 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