janičiar

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Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یڭیچری (yeñiçeri, “new troops”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

janičiar m pers (female equivalent janičiarka, related adjective janičiarsky)

  1. (historical) janissary (member of Turkish elite infantry)
  2. (derogatory, rare) renegade

Declension

Declension of janičiar (pattern chlap)
singularplural
nominativejaničiarjaničiari
genitivejaničiarajaničiarov
dativejaničiarovijaničiarom
accusativejaničiarajaničiarov
locativejaničiarovijaničiaroch
instrumentaljaničiaromjaničiarmi

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “janičiar”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 240

Further reading

  • “janičiar”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
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