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The BCMS–English Dictionary

Of colloquial & specialized expressions — idioms, slang, proverbs, jargon, medical & religious terms, and Arabic, Turkish, German, Italian & Persian loanwords.

132,858 entries · searchable in either language

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Compiled over decades by Nusret Mulasmajic, PhD, this dictionary gathers the living language — the words people actually say — across Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia: street slang and small-town idiom, proverbs and curses, trade jargon, medical and religious terminology, and the deep sediment of Arabic, Turkish, German, Italian and Persian loanwords.

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