zumbul

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See also: zümbül

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سنبل (sümbül), from Persian سنبل (sonbol). First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zǔmbul/
  • Hyphenation: zum‧bul

Noun

zùmbul m (Cyrillic spelling зу̀мбул)

  1. hyacinth
  2. (slang, vulgar) idiot
  3. (slang, vulgar) faggot

Declension

Declension of zumbul
singular plural
nominative zumbul zumbuli
genitive zumbula zumbula
dative zumbulu zumbulima
accusative zumbul zumbule
vocative zumbule zumbuli
locative zumbulu zumbulima
instrumental zumbulom zumbulima

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “zùmbul”, in Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes II: O—Ž, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 610
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