dušman

• dȕšmanin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دشمن (düşman), from Classical Persian دُشْمَن (dušman). Akin to dušmànluk and dȋn-dȕšman.

• (dùšman): IPA^(key): /dûʃman/
• (dùšmān): IPA^(key): /dǔʃmaːn/
• Hyphenation: duš‧man

dȕšman or dùšmān m anim (Cyrillic spelling ду̏шман or ду̀шма̄н)

1. (expressive) enemy
   • 2012, Cherkezi United, Smugljanka:

     Bježao sam pred dušmanom,
     Napustivši rodni grad.

     I fled before the enemy,
     Leaving behind my native city.

   • 1993, Bajaga i Instruktori, “Ovo je Balkan”, in Bajaga i Instruktori (lyrics), Muzika na struju‎^[1], performed by Bajaga i Instruktori, Produkcija Stig:

     Tu svako može biti
     Dušman i brat
     Svakih pedeset leta izbija rat.

     Here anyone can be
     Enemy and brother
     Every fifty years erupts the war.

• nèprijatelj

• “dušman”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 229