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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic въстокъ (vŭstokŭ, “rising, east”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “rising, east”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǐstok/
- Hyphenation: i‧stok
Noun
ìstok m (Cyrillic spelling ѝсток)
- east
- Synonym: ishod
- Antonym: zȃpad
Declension
Further reading
- “istok” in Hrvatski jezični portal