Translingual

Letter

Џ upper case (lower case џ)

1. A letter of some Cyrillic alphabets.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Dž (Serbo-Croatian Latin/Roman alphabet)

Letter

Џ ‎(upper case, lower case џ)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter Ч (Č) and is followed by the letter Ш (Š).

Translingual

Cyrillic letter џ (dzhe)

Letter

џ ‎(lower case, upper case Џ)

1. a Cyrillic letter of corresponding to the digraphs дж ‎(dzh) or чж ‎(chzh) or the letters җ ‎(zhj), ҷ ‎(chj), or ӂ ‎(dzh)

Macedonian

Etymology

From Serbian Cyrillic letter џ (dž), adopted in 1945 by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Letter

џ • ‎(dž) ‎(lower case, upper case Џ)

1. The thirtieth letter of the Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet. Its name is џ ‎(dž) and it has a similar sound to the English dg in dodge. It is preceded by Ч and followed by Ш.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dž (Serbo-Croatian Latin/Roman alphabet)

Etymology 1

From џ of the 15th century Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, first used by Serbian scribes in the 17th century and part of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s Cyrillic alphabet reform.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Letter

џ ‎(lower case, upper case Џ)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic alphabet. It is preceded by the letter ч (č) and is followed by the letter ш (š).

Usage notes

Its name is џ ‎(dž) and it has a similar sound to the English dg in dodge.

Etymology 2

A shortening of џабе.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Adverb

џ ‎(Latin spelling dž)

1. (slang) for free; very cheap