%0 Journal Article %T What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian? %A Stachowski, Marek %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2022 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.22.004.15479 %N Volume 139, Issue 1 %P 69-70 %K Croatian, philology, Evliya Çelebi, translation %@ 1897-1059 %D 2022 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/what-is-whore-barley-in-croatian %X ‘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.