Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Adapted borrowing of Ottoman Turkish چناق (bowl) +‎ -ara. First attested in the 19th century.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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čànčara m (Cyrillic spelling ча̀нчара)

  1. Greek tortoise (Testudo graeca)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “čančara”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 120

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