handžar

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خنجر (hancer), خنچار (hançar) (Turkish hançer), from Persian خنجر (xanjar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǎnd͡ʒaːr/
  • Hyphenation: han‧džar

Noun

hàndžār m (Cyrillic spelling ха̀нџа̄р)

  1. khanjar

Declension

References

  • handžar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 310