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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یدك (yedek) (compare Turkish yedek).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jědek/
- Hyphenation: je‧dek
Noun
jèdek m (Cyrillic spelling јѐдек) (regional)
- parade horse
- halter rope, rope by which a horse is tied or led
- mooring rope, rope by which a boat is tied
- tug-of-war
- spare or reserve part of some equipment
- (rare) equipment, gear, kit in general
References
- “jedek” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “jèdek”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 525