pruga

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *prǫga.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /prǔːɡa/
  • Hyphenation: pru‧ga

Noun

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prúga f (Cyrillic spelling пру́га)

  1. stripe, bind, line
    • 1858, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, Putovanje po Bosni, page 42:
      Nad zobunom navuku dugi kaftan bez rukavah iz cèrvene jake turske svile sa žutima prugama.
      Above their vests they put on a long sleeveless kaftan of strong red Turkish silk with yellow stripes.
  2. railway track, railroad
    • 1898, Ivan Hoić, Slike iz obćega zemljopisa, book 5, part 1, page 152:
      U Moskvi se sastaje šest najznamenitijih željezničkih pruga dalekoga ruskoga carstva.
      The six most notable railway lines of the distant Russian tsardom meet in Moscow.
    • 1969, Slobodan Manojlović, “Polet mladosti”, in Republiko, slavo naša!:
      Mišice mlade radnih brigada:
      kroz njih nek zbori visoka svijest!
      Preko planina, preko dolina,
      probiće prugu snažna nam pest.
      The young muscles of the work-brigades:
      Through them let high consciousness speak!
      Over the mountains, over the valleys,
      Our mighty fist will hammer out a railway.

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