Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish احباب (ahbab, ahbap) (Turkish ahbap), from Arabic أَحْبَاب (ʔaḥbāb), plural of singular حَبِيب (ḥabīb).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǎxbaːb/
  • Hyphenation: ah‧bab

Noun

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àhbāb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀хба̄б)

  1. (regional, Bosnia) friend
  2. (regional, Bosnia) beloved one

References

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  • ahbab” in Hrvatski jezični portal