štir
Serbo-Croatian
editAlternative forms
edit- šćȋr (the form used chiefly in Croatia, occasionally in Bosnia and Serbia)
- šćur (Dalmatia and Krk[1])
- šćirenica, štirenica
- ščir, ščur, ščirenica
Etymology
editInherited from Proto-Slavic *ščirъ.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editštȋr m (Cyrillic spelling шти̑р)
- amaranth (Amaranthus gen. et spp.)
- (dialectal) mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
Declension
editDeclension of štir
References
edit- ^ Recently Šćur (pri)morski has been recorded for Crithmum maritimum L. in Katija Dolina, Marija Jug-Dujaković, Łukasz Łuczaj, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić (2016) “A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica”, in Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae[1], volume 85, number 3, , page 8.
Further reading
edit- “štir” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Amarant on the Serbian Wikipedia.Wikipedia sr
- Amarant on the Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hr