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See also: , , , dz, Dz, DZ, and .dz
dž U+01C6, dž
LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON
Dž
[U+01C5]
Latin Extended-B LJ
[U+01C7]

Romani edit

Pronunciation edit

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(lower case, upper case )

  1. (Pan-Vlax) The seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    Synonym: (International Standard) ʒ

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Serbo-Croatian edit

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  • (uppercase)

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

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(Cyrillic spelling џ)

  1. The 7th letter (digraph) of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by d and followed by đ.

Etymology 2 edit

A shortening of džabe.

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Adverb edit

(Cyrillic spelling џ)

  1. (slang) for free; very cheap

Slovak edit

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(upper case )

  1. The tenth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Further reading edit

  • ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Gaj's Latin alphabet , which is a digraph of d and ž.

Pronunciation edit

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(lower case, upper case )

  1. A digraph of Slovene letters d and ž.

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  1. (non-dialectal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [d͡ʒ].

Noun edit

 m inan

  1. The name of the Latin script digraph / .
    Synonyms: , trdi dž
  2. (linguistics) The name of the phoneme /d͡ʒ/.
Inflection edit
  • Overall more common
 
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.
gen. sing. dž-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
dž-ja dž-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dž-ja dž-jev dž-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
dž-ju dž-jema dž-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
dž-ja dž-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
dž-ju dž-jih dž-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
dž-jem dž-jema dž-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing.
gen. sing.
singular dual plural
nominative
accusative
genitive
dative
locative
instrumental

Etymology 2 edit

From Slovene dež with the omission of letter e that represents /ə/.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

 m inan

  1. (colloquial) rain
    Synonyms: dež, deževanje, moča, mokrota, primaka
Inflection edit
  • Probably more common
 
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nominative
genitive də̏žja
singular
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
dative
(dajȃlnik)
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
də̏žju
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
də̏žjem
Masculine inan., soft o-stem, ending accent
nom. sing.
gen. sing. dəžjȁ
singular
nominative
accusative
genitive dəžjȁ
dative dəžjȕ
locative dəžjȕ
instrumental dəžjȅm

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Further reading edit

”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran