jaje

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȃje, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

jaje ?

1. egg

• “jaje”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

From Proto-Slavic *ȃje (“egg”), ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓja (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

• IPA^(key): /jǎːje/
• Hyphenation: ja‧je

jáje n (Cyrillic spelling ја́је)

1. egg

   pržena jaja ― fried eggs

   jaje na oko ― sunny-side up egg

   u Čečeniji su pronašli jaja dinosaura stara 60 000 000 godina ― they found dinosaur eggs in Chechnya that are 60 000 000 years old

2. (mildly vulgar, colloquial, usually in the plural) ball, testicle

   frajeru, ček, obrijao si jaja? ― dude, wait, you shaved your balls?

   gospođo, upoznajte čelična jaja ― madam, meet balls of steel

   kučka me udarila u jaja! ― the bitch kicked me in the nuts!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   tražiti dlaku u jajetu ― to look for meaningless details

   (biti sličan) kao jaje jajetu ― as two peas in a pod

   hladiti jaja ― to rest and enjoy (as opposed to be working hard)

   držati koga za jaja ― to have somebody by the balls

   do jaja ― (as an adjective) awesome; (as an adverb) awesomely; completely, to the full

• “jaje” in Hrvatski jezični portal