fildiš

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 fȉl (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fìldiš m (Cyrillic spelling фѝлдиш)

(regional, uncountable) ivory

Declension

Declension of fildiš

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

Synonyms

(ivory): slònovača

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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