merdevine

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مردیون (merdiven), from Persian نردبان (nardabân).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mêrdeʋine/

Noun

mȅrdevine f pl (Cyrillic spelling ме̏рдевине)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) ladder

   Synonym: ljȅstve

Declension

Declension of merdevine

	plural
nominative	merdevine
genitive	merdevina
dative	merdevinama
accusative	merdevine
vocative	merdevine
locative	merdevinama
instrumental	merdevinama

Further reading

• “ме̏рдивене”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2015–2025