zrakomlat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From zrȃk +‎ -o- +‎ mlátiti.

Literally translates to "air beater". Coined as a replacement for "helikopter" around 1993 by a government commission charged with coining new Croatian words pertaining to aviation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zrâkomlaːt/
  • Hyphenation: zra‧ko‧mlat

Noun

zrȁkomlāt m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling зра̏комла̄т)

  1. (Croatia, neologism, nonstandard, rare) helicopter, chopper
    Synonym: helikòpter

Further reading

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