bekrija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بكری (bekri) (Turkish bekri), from Persian بکروی (bakravi, “a great drinker”), related to بکره (bokra, “boozing-ken”) and بکر (bekr, “wine”), artificial poetical terms from Arabic بِكْر (bikr, “virgin”), but compare بگماز (begmâz, bagmâz, “wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /běkrija/
• Hyphenation: be‧kri‧ja

Noun

bèkrija m (Cyrillic spelling бѐкрија)

1. (colloquial, expressive) person fond of drinking, nightly revelling, and good living; roisterer, bon vivant, bacchanal, drunkard

Declension

Declension of bekrija

	singular	plural
nominative	bekrija	bekrije
genitive	bekrije	bekrija
dative	bekriji	bekrijama
accusative	bekriju	bekrije
vocative	bekrijo	bekrije
locative	bekriji	bekrijama
instrumental	bekrijom	bekrijama

References

• “bekrija” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Đuro Daničić, editor (1880-1882), “bèkrija”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 228
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “بكروى”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 195
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بکر”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 254a