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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چراغ (çirâg, çerâg), from Persian چراغ (čerâğ, “lamp, light, wick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃǐraːk/
- Hyphenation: či‧rak
Noun
čìrāk m (Cyrillic spelling чѝра̄к)
- (regional) candlestick
- Synonyms: svȇćnjāk, svijȇćnjāk
- (regional) official, clerk
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چراق (çırak), from Persian چراغ (čerâğ). Akin to čiràkluk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʃǐraːk/
- Hyphenation: či‧rak
Noun
čìrāk m (Cyrillic spelling чѝра̄к)
- (regional) apprentice, student, pupil
- Synonyms: kȃlfa, šègrt
- (regional) servant
Declension
References
- “čirak” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 177
- “čirak”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 6, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 882
- Речник српскога језика (2007, Прво издање), Нови Сад: Матица српска, page 1517