štir
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- šćȋr (the form used chiefly in Croatia, occasionally in Bosnia and Serbia)
- šćur (Dalmatia and Krk[1])
- šćirenica, štirenica
- ščir, ščur, ščirenica
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščirъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃtîːr/
Noun
štȋr m inan (Cyrillic spelling шти̑р)
- amaranth (Amaranthus gen. et spp.)
- (dialectal) mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | štir | štirevi |
| genitive | štira | štireva |
| dative | štiru | štirevima |
| accusative | štir | štireve |
| vocative | štiru | štirevi |
| locative | štiru | štirevima |
| instrumental | štirom | štirevima |
References
- ^ Recently Šćur (pri)morski has been recorded for Crithmum maritimum L. in Katija Dolina, Marija Jug-Dujaković, Łukasz Łuczaj, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić (2016) “A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica”, in Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae[1], volume 85, number 3, , page 8.
Further reading
- “štir”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
- Amarant on the Serbian Wikipedia.Wikipedia sr
- Amarant on the Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hr