čaršija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشی (çarşı), from Persian چارسو (čârsu). First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃǎrʃija/
  • Hyphenation: čar‧ši‧ja
  • Rhymes: -ija

Noun

čàršija f (Cyrillic spelling ча̀ршија)

  1. business district, downtown
  2. (colloquial) people

Declension

Declension of čaršija
singular plural
nominative čaršija čaršije
genitive čaršije čaršija
dative čaršiji čaršijama
accusative čaršiju čaršije
vocative čaršijo čaršije
locative čaršiji čaršijama
instrumental čaršijom čaršijama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čaršija”, 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 121