tenef
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- tènep
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تنف (tenef), vulgarized from طنب (tunb, tunüb), from Arabic طُنُب (ṭunub).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /těnef/
Noun
tènef m (Cyrillic spelling тѐнеф)
- (obsolete, Serbia in some places) rope, line
- a. 1846, “Serbian folk song Од Хорвата Мато”:
- Бијеле му савезаше руке,
Од лаката тенеф до ноката- He tied up his white hands,
From the elbow to the nails a rope
- He tied up his white hands,
- a. 1889, “Serbian folk song Халил тражи Мујова ђогата (Јабланица)”:
- За тенефе коње заведоше,
И два топа довукли су туте,
Тенеф паде коњи полетјеше,
А два топа над њим’ упалише,
Нек се чује Задру каменому,
Да су њему коњи полетјели.- He led the horses by ropes,
And two cannonballs pulled him down here,
The rope fell, the horses flew off,
And two cannonballs fell on him,
Rocky Zadar shall not hear
That his horses flew.
- He led the horses by ropes,
Declension
Declension of tenef
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tenef | tenefi |
genitive | tenefa | tenefa |
dative | tenefu | tenefima |
accusative | tenef | tenefe |
vocative | tenefe | tenefi |
locative | tenefu | tenefima |
instrumental | tenefom | tenefima |