đerđef
Serbo-Croatian edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گركف (gerkef), from Persian کارگاه (kârgâh).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
đèrđef m (Cyrillic spelling ђѐрђеф)
- (regional, Bosnia, Serbia) embroidery hoop
- 1955, Hamid Dizdar, Narodne pripovijetke iz Bosne i Hercegovine: Bajke, Narodna prosvjeta, page 55:
- To caru mučno bilo i on sazove kujundžibašu i zapita ga, bi li koji kujundžija umio takav đerđef namjestiti.
- That was arduous to the emperor and he summoned the main smith, and asked him if there is a smith who could set up such a đerđef.
- 1970, Tvrtko Čubelić, Narodne pripovijetke: Izbor tekstova s komentarima i objašnjenjima i rasprava o narodnim pripovijetkama, Usmena narodna književnost, page 69:
- Jer je ovo drvo sviju vila, ispod njega se kupe ljeti te na đerđef vezu.
- Because this is the tree of all the fairies, they gather below it in Summer and embroider on the đerđef.