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