What is ‘whore barley’ in Croatian?
Abstrakt
‘Whore barley’ is an English translation of a Croatian syntagm adduced in Evliya Çelebi’s itinerary. This author, intrigued by the apparently senseless expression, tries to explain its meaning.
Słowa kluczowe:
Croatian,
philology,
Evliya Çelebi,
translation
PEŁNY TEKST:
PDFReferences
Dankoff R. 1991. An Evliya Çelebi glossary. Unusual, dialectal and foreign words in the Seyahat-name. Cambridge (MA): Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
