čančara

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Ottoman Turkish چناق (“bowl”) +‎ -ara. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǎnt͡ʃara/

Noun

čànčara m anim (Cyrillic spelling ча̀нчара)

  1. Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca)

Declension

    Declension of čančara
singular plural
nominative čančaraa čančarae
genitive čančarae čančaraa
dative čančarai čančaraama
accusative čančarau čančarae
vocative čančarao čančarae
locative čančarai čančaraama
instrumental čančaraom čančaraama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čančara”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 120

Further reading

  • “čančara”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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