mršav

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mьršavъ.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mr̂ʃaʋ/
  • Hyphenation: mr‧šav

Adjective

mȑšav (Cyrillic spelling мр̏шав, definite mȑšavī, comparative mršaviji)

  1. thin, lean
  2. (figuratively) bad, poor (of content/output/volume etc.)

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • tȁnak (thin (of inanimate things))

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “mȑšav”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 639

References

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