پودغوریچه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pòdgorica / По̀дгорица (literally “under the Gorica”), from pȍd / по̏д (“under”) + Gorica / Горица (“little mountain”), the name of a hill which overlooks the city.

Proper noun

پودغوریچه • (podgoriça, podgoriçe)

1. Podgorica (the capital and largest city of Montenegro)

Descendants

• Turkish: Podgorica

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پودغوریچه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 456
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Podgoriçe”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 622