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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian жанр (žanr), from French genre, from Latin genus.
Pronunciation
Noun
žanr (genitive žanri, partitive žanri)
- genre
Declension
Further reading
- “žanr”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “žanr”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “žanr”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- žanr in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from French genre.[1]
Noun
žȁnr m (Cyrillic spelling жа̏нр)
- genre
Declension
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2021) “žȁnr”, 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 614
Turkmen
Etymology
From Russian жанр (žanr), from French genre.
Noun
žanr (definite accusative žanry, plural žanrlar)
- genre
Declension