mušterija
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مشتری (müşteri), from Arabic (indefinite) مُشْتَرٍ (muštarin), (definite) المُشْتَرِي (al-muštarī).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muʃtěrija/
- Hyphenation: mu‧šte‧ri‧ja
- Rhymes: -ija
Noun
muštèrija m anim (Cyrillic spelling муштѐрија)
- customer, buyer
- Synonym: kupac
- 1986 February 4, Riblja Čorba, “Amsterdam”[1]:
- Tu kurave u izlozi sedu,
ćutu, pušu, prolaznike gledu,
sedu gole ili u negliže
mušterije da im priđu bliže.- Whores there sitting at the shop window,
quietly smoking, watching the passers-by
sitting naked or in négligée
to make customers get closer to them.
- Whores there sitting at the shop window,
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mušterija | mušterije |
| genitive | mušterije | mušterija |
| dative | mušteriji | mušterijama |
| accusative | mušteriju | mušterije |
| vocative | mušterijo | mušterije |
| locative | mušteriji | mušterijama |
| instrumental | mušterijom | mušterijama |
Further reading
- “mušterija”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025