frenđija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرنگی (firengi, “Western European”) + -ija, the former from Persian فرنگی (farangi), ultimately from Old French franc (“Frank”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frěnd͡ʑija/
• Hyphenation: fren‧đi‧ja

Noun

frènđija f (Cyrillic spelling фрѐнђија)

1. tower built in a ‘Frankish’ or Western European style

References

• Pero Budmani, editor (1887–1891), “frènđija”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 3, Zagreb: JAZU, page 71