English

Noun

rakija ‎(uncountable)

1. A strong distilled alcoholic beverage made from various fruits, varieties of which (such as slivovitz) are found across the Balkans and the Mediterranean. (Compare brandy.)

Translations

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (Turkish rakı), probably from Arabic عَرَق ‎(ʿaraq, “sweat; wine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rǎkija/
• Hyphenation: ra‧ki‧ja

Noun

ràkija f ‎(Cyrillic spelling ра̀кија)

1. (uncountable) rakija

Declension