џуџе

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جوجه (cüce), from Persian جوجه (juje). Cognate with Bulgarian джудже́ (džudžé).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒud͡ʒɛ]
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  • Hyphenation: џу‧џе

Noun

џу́џе • (džúdže) n (plural џу́џиња, relational adjective џу́џест, diminutive џу́џенце)

  1. dwarf, midget, elf

Declension

References

  • џуџе” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “џуџе”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language] (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 210
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