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џ

//d͡ʒ~ɖ͡ʐ/ | /d͡ʒə/ | /d͡ʒ~ɖ͡ʐ//
Serbo-Croatiancharacteradv
Latinica: džone entry, two scripts

Definitions

  1. 1.
    The twenty-ninth letter of the Serbo-Croatian alphabet, written in the Cyrillic script.
  2. 2.
    slangfor free; very cheap

Synonyms & related words

Related words (10)

Etymology

Presumed to be a modification of ч (č), itself a modification of the Glagolitic letter Ⱍ. The first recorded use in modern form is in the 15th century Romanian Cyrillic alphabet. First used by Serbian scribes in the 17th century and part of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s Cyrillic alphabet reform.

Forms

  • romanization
  • Џuppercase

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