Meanings
nounSerbo-Croatism (plural Serbo-Croatisms)
plural Serbo-Croatisms · alternative Serbocroatism
- rhetoricA term, phrase or idiom from Serbo-Croatian in another language.
Now the suffix -oš- may apply to non-Hungarian words in both the NC and NSC dialects, e. g. Klinóca prahoši 'a dusty person' (from the Serbocroatism praho 'dust, ash'), or ESR ciralošis 'person who likes floury meals' (from the thematic ciral 'curd').
2017, Dieter W. Halwachs, Florian Menz, Die Sprache der Roma page 330
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