Etymology

chetnik

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Today it means: A member of a Serbian royalist army band. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian četnik
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  1. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromčetnik
  2. English todaychetnik

From Serbo-Croatian četnik, from četa (“band, group”) + -nik.

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