dž

See also: dź, Dž, DŽ, dz, Dz, DZ, and .dz

dž U+01C6, dž LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON ← Dž [U+01C5] Latin Extended-B LJ → [U+01C7]

Romani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

dž (lower case, upper case Dž)

1. (Pan-Vlax) The seventh letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

   Synonym: (International Standard) ʒ

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, X x, I i, J j, K k, Kh kh, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Ph ph, R r, S s, T t, Th th, U u, V v, Z z International Standard: (À à, Ä ä, Ǎ ǎ), Ć ć, Ćh ćh, (È è, Ë ë, Ě ě), (Ì ì, Ï ï, Ǐ ǐ), (Ò ò, Ö ö, Ǒ ǒ), Rr rr, Ś ś, (Ù ù, Ü ü, Ǔ ǔ), Ź ź, Ʒ ʒ, Q q, Ç ç, ϴ θ. Pan-Vlax: Č č, Čh čh, Dž dž, (Dź dź), Ř ř, Š š, (Ś ś), Ž ž, (Ź ź).

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Dž (uppercase)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

dž (Cyrillic spelling џ)

1. The 7th letter (digraph) of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by d and followed by đ.

Etymology 2

A shortening of džabe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʒ/

Adverb

dž (Cyrillic spelling џ)

1. (slang) for free; very cheap

Slovak

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/

Letter

dž (upper case Dž)

1. The tenth letter of the Slovak alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, Ä ä, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, Dz dz, Dž dž, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ĺ ĺ, Ľ ľ, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, Ô ô, P p, Q q, R r, Ŕ ŕ, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Further reading

• “dž”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Gaj's Latin alphabet dž, which is a digraph of d and ž.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme, standard): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒ/
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /d͡ʒə́/, /d͡ʒèː/, /d͡ʒéː/
• (letter name, linguistics): IPA^(key): /tə̀rdi d͡ʒə́/, /tə̀rdi d͡ʒèː/, /tə̀rdi d͡ʒéː/ (trdi dž)
• Rhymes: -ə, -eː
• Homophones: Đ, đ, DŽ, Dž

Letter

dž (lower case, upper case Dž)

1. A digraph of Slovene letters d and ž.

Symbol

dž

1. (non-dialectal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound [d͡ʒ].

Noun

dž m inan

1. The name of the Latin script digraph Dž / dž.

   Synonyms: dž, trdi dž

2. (linguistics) The name of the phoneme /d͡ʒ/.

Inflection

• Overall more common

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing.	dž
gen. sing.	dž-ja
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	dž	dž-ja	dž-ji
genitive (rodȋlnik)	dž-ja	dž-jev	dž-jev
dative (dajȃlnik)	dž-ju	dž-jema	dž-jem
accusative (tožȋlnik)	dž	dž-ja	dž-je
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	dž-ju	dž-jih	dž-jih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	dž-jem	dž-jema	dž-ji

• More common when with a definite adjective

Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing.	dž
gen. sing.	dž
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	dž	dž	dž
accusative	dž	dž	dž
genitive	dž	dž	dž
dative	dž	dž	dž
locative	dž	dž	dž
instrumental	dž	dž	dž

Etymology 2

From Slovene dež with the omission of letter e that represents /ə/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /də́ʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʃ
• Homophone: dež

Noun

dž m inan

1. (colloquial) rain

   Synonyms: dež, deževanje, moča, mokrota, primaka

Inflection

• Probably more common

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nominative	dž
genitive	də̏žja
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	dž
genitive (rodȋlnik)	də̏žja
dative (dajȃlnik)	də̏žju
accusative (tožȋlnik)	dž
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	də̏žju
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	də̏žjem

• Less common as it is of higher register

Masculine inan., soft o-stem, ending accent
nom. sing.	dž
gen. sing.	dəžjȁ
	singular
nominative	dž
accusative	dž
genitive	dəžjȁ
dative	dəžjȕ
locative	dəžjȕ
instrumental	dəžjȅm

See also

• d
• đ
• ž
• dz
• ǯ
• dež

Further reading

“dž”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024