bimbaša

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish bin (“thousand”) + paşa (“leader”) - "one who leads a group of one thousand").

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bîmbaʃa/
Hyphenation: bim‧ba‧ša

Noun

bȉmbaša m (Cyrillic spelling би̏мбаша)

(military, regional) centurion

Synonyms

tȉsućnîk / tȉsutnjîk

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