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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قومشو (komşu, “neighbour”), older قونشو (konşu, “neighbour”), now Turkish komşu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǒmʃija/
- Hyphenation: kòm‧ši‧ja
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
kòmšija m (Cyrillic spelling ко̀мшија, feminine kòmšīnica)
- (regional in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia) neighbour (a person living on adjacent or nearby land)
- Synonyms: súsjed, súsed
- On je dobar drug mog komšije. ― He is a good friend of my neighbour.
Usage notes
The preferred word in literary Croatian is súsjed.
Declension
References
- “komšija” in Hrvatski jezični portal