pruga

Serbo-Croatian

prúga f (Cyrillic spelling пру́га)

stripe, bind, line
- 1858, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Putovanje po Bosni, page 42:
  Nad zobunom navuku dugi kaftan bez rukavah iz cèrvene jake turske svile sa žutima prugama.
  Above their vests they put on a long sleeveless kaftan of strong red Turkish silk with yellow stripes.
railway track, railroad
- 1898, Ivan Hoić, Slike iz obćega zemljopisa, book 5, part 1, page 152:
  U Moskvi se sastaje šest najznamenitijih željezničkih pruga dalekoga ruskoga carstva.
  The six most notable railway lines of the distant Russian tsardom meet in Moscow.
- 1969, Slobodan Manojlović, “Polet mladosti”, in Republiko, slavo naša!:
  Mišice mlade radnih brigada:
  kroz njih nek zbori visoka svijest!
  Preko planina, preko dolina,
  probiće prugu snažna nam pest.
  The young muscles of the work-brigades:
  Through them let high consciousness speak!
  Over the mountains, over the valleys,
  Our mighty fist will hammer out a railway.