kamrikuša

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناریه قوشی (kanarya quşu), with semantic shift.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kamrikuʃa/
  • Hyphenation: kam‧ri‧ku‧ša

Noun

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kamrikuša f (Cyrillic spelling камрикуша)

  1. A fictional large bird featuring in South Slavic folktales.
    • 1870, anonymous author, Bosanske narodne pripovjedke:
      ptica kamrikuša koja je tako velika bila da je mogla końa i čovjeka ponijeti
      the kamrikuša bird, which was so big that it could carry a horse or a person

References

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