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Serbo-Croatisms

Serbo-Croatisms is the plural of Serbo-Croatism.

Meaning of Serbo-Croatism

Noun

Serbo-Croatism (plural Serbo-Croatisms)

  1. (rhetoric) A term, phrase or idiom from Serbo-Croatian in another language.
    • Now the suffix -oš- may apply to non-Hungarian words in both the NC and NSC dialects, e. g. Klinóca prahoši 'a dusty person' (from the Serbocroatism praho 'dust, ash'), or ESR ciralošis 'person who likes floury meals' (from the thematic ciral 'curd').2017, Dieter W. Halwachs, Florian Menz, Die Sprache der Roma page 330

Questions about Serbo-Croatisms

What is Serbo-Croatisms the plural of?
Serbo-Croatisms is the plural of Serbo-Croatism.

Words near Serbo-Croatisms in the dictionary

  1. Serbo-Communists
  2. Serbo-Croat
  3. Serbo-Croatian
  4. Serbo-Croatians
  5. Serbo-Croatism
  6. Serbo-Croatisms
  7. Serbo-Croats
  8. Serbocentric
  9. Serbocentrism
  10. Serbocommunist
  11. Serbocommunists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Serbo-Croatisms (page history and authors); Serbo-Croatism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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