Macedonian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آولو (avlu, avlı), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- + *-leh₂.

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Noun

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авлија (avlijaf

  1. yard
  2. fence

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Further reading

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  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “авлија”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language]‎[1] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 14

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آولو (avlu, avlı), from Ancient Greek αὐλή (aulḗ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wes- + *-leh₂.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǎʋlija/
  • Hyphenation: ав‧ли‧ја
  • Rhymes: -ija

Noun

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а̀влија f (Latin spelling àvlija)

  1. yard, front yard
    Synonym: дво̀рӣште

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