What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?

Marek Stachowski

What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?

Publication date: 29.03.2022

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2022, Volume 139, Issue 1, pp. 69 - 70

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.22.004.15479

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What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?

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‘Whore barley’ is an English translation of a Croatian syntagm adduced in Evliya Çelebi’s itinerary. This author, intrigued by the apparently senseless expression, tries to explain its meaning.

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Croatian, philology, Evliya Çelebi, translation

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Dankoff R. 1991. An Evliya Çelebi glossary. Unusual, dialectal and foreign words in the Seyahat-name. Cambridge (MA): Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2022, Volume 139, Issue 1, pp. 69 - 70

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.22.004.15479

Article type: Original article

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What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?

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What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?

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Marek Stachowski

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0667-8862

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 29.03.2022

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