پودغوریچه
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pòdgorica / По̀дгорица (literally “under the Gorica”), from pȍd / по̏д (“under”) + Gorica / Горица (“little mountain”), the name of a hill which overlooks the city.
Proper noun[edit]
پودغوریچه • (podgoriça, podgoriçe)
- Podgorica (the capital and largest city of Montenegro)
Descendants[edit]
- Turkish: Podgorica
Further reading[edit]
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پودغوریچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456
- Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Podgoriçe”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names][2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 622