rakija

English

Alternative forms

• rakia

Etymology

Borrowing from Serbo-Croatian rakija/ракија, from Ottoman Turkish رقی‎ (rakı), probably from Arabic عَرَق‎ (ʿaraq, “sweat; wine”) (as rakija or wine vapor drops are similar to drops of sweat). The exact etymology is hard to pinpoint as this word (or a variant of it) is found throughout the Balkans, the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːkɪə/

Noun

rakija (uncountable)

1. A strong distilled alcoholic beverage made from various fruits, varieties of which (such as slivovitz) are found across the Balkans and the Mediterranean. (Compare brandy.)

Translations

strong alcoholic drink

• Albanian: raki (sq)
• Bulgarian: ракия (bg) f (rakija)
• French: rakia (fr)
• Greek: ρακή (el) f (rakí), ρακί (el) n (rakí)
• Hungarian: pálinka (hu)
• Italian: rakia

• Macedonian: ра́кија f (rákija)
• Russian: ракия (ru) f (rakija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̀кија f

  Roman: ràkija (sh) f

• Turkish: rakı (tr)

Anagrams

• kajira

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish rakı), probably from Arabic عَرَق‎ (ʿaraq, “sweat; wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rǎkija/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ki‧ja

Noun

ràkija f (Cyrillic spelling ра̀кија)

1. (uncountable) rakija

Declension

Declension of rakija

	singular
nominative	rakija
genitive	rakije
dative	rakiji
accusative	rakiju
vocative	rakijo
locative	rakiji
instrumental	rakijom