zrakomlat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From zrak +‎ -o- +‎ mlatiti.

Literally translates to "air beater". Coined as a replacement for "helikopter" around 1993 by a government commission charged with coining new Croatian words pertaining to aviation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zrâkomlaːt/
• Hyphenation: zra‧ko‧mlat

Noun

zrȁkomlāt m (Cyrillic spelling зра̏комла̄т)

1. (Croatia, neologism, nonstandard, rare) helicopter, chopper

   Synonym: helikòpter

References

• Sudetic, Chuck. "Balkan Conflicts Are Uncoupling Serbo-Croatian". The New York Times, 26 December 1993.
• Tonkin, Humphrey. Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language. (1997). University Press of America.