камрикуша

камрикуша

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قناریه قوشی‎ (kanarya quşu), with semantic shift.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamrikuʃa/
• Hyphenation: кам‧ри‧ку‧ша

Noun

камрикуша f (Latin spelling kamrikuša)

1. A fictional large bird featuring in South Slavic folktales.
   • 1870, anonymous, Bosanske narodne pripovjedke:

     ptica kamrikuša koja je tako velika bila da je mogla końa i čovjeka ponijeti

     the kamrikuša bird, which was so big that it could carry a horse or a person

References

• Pero Budmani, editor (1892-1897), “kamrikuša”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 814