Macedonian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, fountain, spring; wellhead).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbunar]
  • Hyphenation: бу‧нар

Noun

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бу́нар (búnarm (plural бу́нари, relational adjective бу́нарски, diminutive бу́нарче)

  1. well (water)

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References

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  • бунар” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, fountain, spring; wellhead).[1][2] First attested in the 17th century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bǔnaːr/
  • Hyphenation: бу‧нар

Noun

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бу̀на̄р m (Latin spelling bùnār)

  1. well (hole sunk into the ground)

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References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bùnār”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 96
  2. ^ Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “bùnār”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 157

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