Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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ȍštar +‎ ȗm +‎ -je. Compare ȍštroūman.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /oʃtrǒuːmʎe/
  • Hyphenation: o‧štro‧um‧lje

Noun

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oštròūmlje n (Cyrillic spelling оштро̀ӯмље)

  1. sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, shrewdness

References

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  • Tomislav Maretić, editor (1924–1927), “oštròūmlje”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 9, Zagreb: JAZU, page 337