ljiljak

Probably from Proto-Slavic *lilъ (“membrane, skin”) +‎ -ak with a similar semantic basis as dialectal Russian кожа́н (kožán, “bat”) (from Russian ко́жа (kóža, “skin”)). Cognate with Macedonian лилјак (liljak, “bat”), Bulgarian лиляк (liljak, “bat”), Ukrainian ли́ли́к (lýlýk, “bat”), and loaned into Romanian liliac (“bat”).

• IPA^(key): /ʎǐːʎak/
• Hyphenation: lji‧ljak

ljíljak m anim (Cyrillic spelling љи́љак)

1. (zoology) bat

   Synonyms: šišmiš, slijepi miš, netopir

• “љи́љак”, in Речник српскога језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Измењено и поправљено издање, Нови Сад: Матица српска, 2011, page 645
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лилек”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 402

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