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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From òrao (“eagle”) + -ina.
Noun
orlùšina f (Cyrillic spelling орлу̀шина)
- (derogatory) big eagle
1918, Miroslav Krleža, Nedjeljna pjesma:I sada, u noći, umorni pijemo zvijezde.
Crni je vjetar ledenim mačem poubijao oblačne orlušine
što su kao lešinari prekrili modre nebeske snove,
pribijene draguljnim čavlima na nijemoj Golgoti.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Further reading
- “orlušina”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024