bjelogorica

== Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === From bijel (“white”) +‎ -o- +‎ gora (“forest”) +‎ -ica. Coined by Bogoslav Šulek (1860, under headword Laubwald) as antonym to crnogorica (“coniferous forest”, literally “black forest”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bjeloɡǒrit͡sa/, /bjelǒɡorit͡sa/ === Noun === bjelogòrica or bjelògorica f (Cyrillic spelling бјелого̀рица or бјело̀горица, relational adjective bjelogorični) (uncountable) deciduous wood or trees Antonym: crnogorica ==== Usage notes ==== The accent bjelògorica (as in Babić 2002) is archaic / less frequent. ==== Declension ==== === References === Babić, Stjepan (2002), Tvorba riječi u hrvatskome književnome jeziku, 3rd revised edition, Zagreb: HAZU, page(s) 189, § 583 Dukat, Vladoje (1936), “Bjelogorica, crnogorica”, in Наш језик‎[2], volume IV, number 5, Београд: Лингвистичко друштво, pages 137-139 Šulek, Bogoslav (1860), “Laubwald”, in Deutsch-kroatisches Wörterbuch / Němačko-hrvatski rěčnik: I. Band (A bis L)‎[3], Agram: Franz Suppan === Further reading === “bjelogorica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026