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crven

Pronunciation: /tsřʋen/

“crven” is a Serbo-Croatian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. red
  2. ruddy, rubicund
  3. gules

noun

  1. red (color, or something red-colored)
  2. the red color
  3. scarlet fever
  4. revolutionary, Red
  5. a Red Army soldier (or other people's army)
  6. sympathizer or a member of extreme left; a communist
  7. a 1000 dinar banknote

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrvenъ, which is a passive participle of *čьrviti (“dye using červec”), where červec is a kind of worm used as a red dye (compare cȓv (“worm”)).

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