dilkuša

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دلكشا (dilküşa), from Persian دل (del, “heart”) + گشودن (gušadan, “to open”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dǐlkuʃa/
  • Hyphenation: dil‧ku‧ša

Noun

dìlkuša f (Cyrillic spelling дѝлкуша)

  1. (regional) songbird, usually nightingale

References

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