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буџа

//bǔːd͡ʒa//
Serbo-Croatiannoun
Latinica: budžaone entry, two scripts

Definitions

  1. 1.
    a powerful person; figurehead, kingpin, bigwig
  2. 2.
    obsoleteregionalcudgel, club
  3. 3.
    obsoleteregionalpit
  4. 4.
    obsoleteregionalprison

Etymology

By metathesis from Ottoman Turkish جب (cübb), from Arabic جُبّ (jubb, “cistern, well; pit, fosse”).

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