филдиш

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (fildişi) (Turkish fildişi), a compound of [script needed] (fil, “elephant”) and [script needed] (diş, “tooth”) (Turkish fil and diş). Akin to фи̏л (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fǐldiʃ/
Hyphenation: фил‧диш

Noun

фѝлдиш m (Latin spelling fìldiš)

(regional, uncountable) ivory

Declension

Declension of филдиш

	singular
nominative	филдиш
genitive	филдиша
dative	филдишу
accusative	филдиш
vocative	филдишу
locative	филдишу
instrumental	филдишем

Synonyms

(ivory): сло̀новача

References

Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 283
Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (1990, Друго фототипско издање), Матица српска, Matica hrvatska (Нови Сад, Zagreb), volume 6, page 669

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