đerđef

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʑěrd͡ʑef/
  • Hyphenation: đer‧đef

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گرگف (gergef), from Persian کارکاه (kârkâh).

Noun

đèrđef m (Cyrillic spelling ђѐрђеф)

  1. A frame on which an embroidery canvas is attached.
    • 1955, Hamid Dizdar, Narodne pripovijetke iz Bosne i Hercegovine: Bajke, Narodna prosvjeta, page 55:
      To caru mučno bilo i on sazove kujundžibašu i zapita ga, bi li koji kujundžija umio takav đerđef namjestiti.
      That was painful to the emperor and he summoned the main smith, and asked him if there is a smith who could set such a đerđef.
    • 1970 Tvrtko Čubelić, Narodne pripovijetke: Izbor tekstova s komentarima i objašnjenjima i rasprava o narodnim pripovijetkama, Usmena narodna književnost, page 69:
      Jer je ovo drvo sviju vila, ispod njega se kupe ljeti te na đerđef vezu.
      Because this is the tree of all the fairies, they gather below it in Summer and embroider on the đerđef.
  2. (regional) tambour

Declension

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