kamrikuša
Appearance
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناریه قوشی (kanarya quşu), with semantic shift.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kamrikuša f (Cyrillic spelling камрикуша)
- A fictional large bird featuring in South Slavic folktales.
- 1870, anonymous author, Bosanske narodne pripovjedke:
- ptica kamrikuša koja je tako velika bila da je mogla końa i čovjeka ponijeti
- the kamrikuša bird, which was so big that it could carry a horse or a person
References
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kamrikuša”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 814