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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Very likely from Czech tuleň in the 19th century (which in turn was borrowed from Russian, and Russian borrowed it from a Sami language).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tǔʎan/
- Hyphenation: tu‧ljan
Noun
tùljan m (Cyrillic spelling ту̀љан)
- (Croatia) seal (pinniped)
- Synonym: (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) fȍka
Declension
References
- “tuljan”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024