štir

See also: stir, Stir, STIR, štír, știr, and Știr

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms
  • šćȋr (the form used chiefly in Croatia, occasionally in Bosnia and Serbia)
  • šćur (Dalmatia and Krk[1])
  • šćirenica, štirenica
  • ščir, ščur, ščirenica

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ščirъ.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃtîːr/

Noun

štȋr m (Cyrillic spelling шти̑р)

  1. amaranth (Amaranthus gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: trȁtor, amàrant
  2. (dialectal) mercury (Mercurialis gen. et spp.)
    Synonyms: pròsinac, rèsulja, mrkorèla, mrkonèla, mrkvela, (Istra, Krk) mrkvjela, bingulja

Declension
Declension of štir
singular plural
nominative štir štirevi
genitive štira štireva
dative štiru štirevima
accusative štir štireve
vocative štiru štirevi
locative štiru štirevima
instrumental štirom štirevima

References
  1. Recently Šćur (pri)morski has been recorded for Crithmum maritimum L. in Katija Dolina, Marija Jug-Dujaković, Łukasz Łuczaj, Ivana Vitasović-Kosić (2016) “A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica”, in Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae‎, volume 85, number 3, →DOI, page 8.

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