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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From od- + Proto-Slavic *čajati (Russian ча́ять (čájatʹ), Polish przyczaić).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ôt͡ʃaːj/
- Hyphenation: o‧čaj
Noun
ȍčāj m (Cyrillic spelling о̏ча̄ј)
- despair
Declension
Quotations
References
- “očaj”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024