lijer

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Pronunciation

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Noun

lijer m (plural lijers, diminutive lijertje n)

  1. (informal) Alternative form of lijder

Usage notes

  • This informal variant is generally reserved for insults and virtually always preceded by the name of a disease (see Derived terms below); very rarely encountered on its own.

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lijêːr/
  • Hyphenation: li‧jer

Noun

lijȇr m (Cyrillic spelling лије̑р)

  1. (Croatia) lily
    Synonym: ljìljan

Declension

References

  • lijer”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024