dunjarica

== Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === Calque of taxonomic name Cotoneaster, where dȕnja (“quince”) +‎ -àrica is for cotōneum (“quince”) and -aster. The similarity to Arabic إِسْكِدُنْيَا (ʔiskidunyā, “medlar”) and Turkish dünya (“world”) and rare Serbo-Croatian dȕnja (“world”), notwithstanding names like German Zwergmispel (“cotoneaster”, literally “dwarf-medlar”), is a coincidence. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /duɲǎrit͡sa/ === Noun === dunjàrica f (Cyrillic spelling дуња̀рица) cotoneaster ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “dunjarica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026 dunjarica on the Croatian Wikipedia.Wikipedia hr