fildiš

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل دیشی (fildişi, literally “elephant tooth”). Akin to fȉl (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fǐldiʃ/
  • Hyphenation: fil‧diš

Noun

fìldiš m inan (Cyrillic spelling фѝлдиш)

  1. (regional, uncountable) ivory
    Synonym: slònovača

Declension

Declension of fildiš
singular
nominative fildiš
genitive fildiša
dative fildišu
accusative fildiš
vocative fildišu
locative fildišu
instrumental fildišem

References

  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 283
  • “fildiš”, 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 6, Novi Sad; Zagreb: Matica srpska; Matica hrvatska, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 669
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