nišan

See also: nisan, Nisan, nisän, and nişan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نشان (nişan), from Classical Persian نِشَان (nišān).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nǐʃan/
  • Hyphenation: ni‧šan

Noun

nìšan m inan (Cyrillic spelling нѝшан)

  1. sight (aiming device)
    Synonym: ciljnik
  2. aim, gunpoint
  3. (Islam) gravemarker or Muslim tombstone

Declension

Declension of nišan
singular plural
nominative nišan nišani
genitive nišana nišana
dative nišanu nišanima
accusative nišan nišane
vocative nišane nišani
locative nišanu nišanima
instrumental nišanom nišanima

Further reading

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