dunjarica

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Calque of translingual Cotoneaster, where dȕnja (“quince”) +‎ -àrica is for cotōneum (“quince”) and -aster. The similarity to Arabic إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā, “medlar”) and Turkish dünya (“world”) and rare Serbo-Croatian dȕnja (“world”), notwithstanding names like German Zwergmispel (“cotoneaster”, literally “dwarf-medlar”), is a coincidence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duɲǎrit͡sa/

Noun

dunjàrica f (Cyrillic spelling дуња̀рица)

1. cotoneaster

Declension

Declension of dunjarica

	singular	plural
nominative	dunjarica	dunjarice
genitive	dunjarice	dunjarica
dative	dunjarici	dunjaricama
accusative	dunjaricu	dunjarice
vocative	dunjarico	dunjarice
locative	dunjarici	dunjaricama
instrumental	dunjaricom	dunjaricama

Further reading

• “dunjarica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• dunjarica on the Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^hr