lakrdija

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لقردی (lakırdı). First attested in the 18th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lakř̩dija/

Noun

lakr̀dija f (Cyrillic spelling лакр̀дија)

  1. farce

Declension

Declension of lakrdija
singular plural
nominative lakrdija lakrdije
genitive lakrdije lakrdija
dative lakrdiji lakrdijama
accusative lakrdiju lakrdije
vocative lakrdijo lakrdije
locative lakrdiji lakrdijama
instrumental lakrdijom lakrdijama

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016), “lakrdija”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I: A – Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 536