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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سپاهی (sipahi), from Persian سپاهی (sepâhi, “soldier”). Akin to sìpāh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spǎxija/
- Hyphenation: spa‧hi‧ja
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
spàhija m (Cyrillic spelling спа̀хија)
- (historical) spahi
- (regional, obsolete) an affluent Islamic head of household in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Hasan-spahija ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Omer-spahija ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
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References
- “spahija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 570