arpadžik

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آرپه‌جق (ârpajiq); (Modern Turkish: arpacık), shortened from arpacık (soğanı) - type of a small onion (soğan), literally the size of a small barley (arpacık). From arpa +‎ -cık.

Compare Romanian arpagic and Bulgarian арпаджик (arpadžik).

Noun

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arpadžik m (Cyrillic spelling арпаџик)

  1. Small onion bulb used to start a seedling