biljeg
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bělěgъ, from a Turkic language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bǐʎeɡ/
- Hyphenation: bi‧ljeg
Noun
bìljeg m inan (Cyrillic spelling бѝљег) (Ijekavian)
- mark, marker
- tumorski biljeg ― tumor marker
- molekularni biljeg ― molecular marker
- feature, trait, characteristic
- birthmark
- (Croatia) tax stamp, stamp (for applications and administrative expenses, not for postal services)
- Svaka firma ima svoj logo i biljeg. ― Each company has its own logo and a stamp.
- sign, signal, symptom
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bìljeg | biljezi |
| genitive | bìljega | biljega |
| dative | biljegu | biljezima |
| accusative | biljeg | biljege |
| vocative | bilježe | biljezi |
| locative | biljegu | biljezima |
| instrumental | biljegom | biljezima |
References
- “biljeg”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
- Skok, Petar (1971), “biljeg”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 1 (A – J), Zagreb: JAZU, page 150
- “biljeg”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика [Rečnik srpskohrvatskoga književnog jezika, Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian Literary Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање [Second Phototype Edition], volume 1, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 171