mušterija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مشتری (müşteri), from Arabic (indefinite) مُشْتَرٍ (muštarin), (definite) المُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muʃtěrija/
• Hyphenation: mu‧šte‧ri‧ja
• Rhymes: -ija

Noun

muštèrija m anim (Cyrillic spelling муштѐрија)

1. customer, buyer

   Synonym: kupac

   • 1986 February 4, Riblja Čorba, “Amsterdam”‎^[1]:

     Tu kurave u izlozi sedu,
     ćutu, pušu, prolaznike gledu,
     sedu gole ili u negliže
     mušterije da im priđu bliže.

     Whores there sitting at the shop window,
     quietly smoking, watching the passers-by
     sitting naked or in négligée
     to make customers get closer to them.

Declension

Declension of mušterija

	singular	plural
nominative	mušterija	mušterije
genitive	mušterije	mušterija
dative	mušteriji	mušterijama
accusative	mušteriju	mušterije
vocative	mušterijo	mušterije
locative	mušteriji	mušterijama
instrumental	mušterijom	mušterijama

Descendants

• → Pannonian Rusyn: муштерия (mušterija)

Further reading

• “mušterija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026