pirinač

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish برنج (birinc). Doublet of ríža through an early Iranian common ancestor.

Noun

pìrinač m inan (Cyrillic spelling пѝринач)

  1. (regional, Bosnia, Serbia) rice
    Synonym: ríža

Declension

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Further reading

  • “pirinač”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • Isaković, Alija (1993) “pirinač”, in Rječnik karakteristične leksike u bosanskome jeziku [Dictionary of characteristic words of the Bosnian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Wuppertal: Bambi, →ISBN, page 312
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