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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آولو (avlu, avlı), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- + *-leh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎʋlija/
- Hyphenation: av‧li‧ja
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
àvlija f (Cyrillic spelling а̀влија)
- yard, front yard
- Synonym: dvòrīšte
Declension
Further reading
- “avlija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024