duša

a soul; darling (a term of endearment, vocative dušo)

душа; душенька (ласковое обращение: dušo)

Examples from the lessons

In phrasebooks

Literary & archaic lexis

Appears in immersion pieces

Baš-Čelik (Steel-Man) · How diabetes led to an ethno village · His Mother’s Words Against the Ghost · Polishing the lens: can he remove the scratch? · Why village life beats the big city · Separate the eggs and whip the whites with sugar · “A weight off your heart”: openness and support

Next to it in the phrasebook

• čȅdoa child (poetic; the ordinary word is dete)
• zbȏra gathering, an assembly (of citizens; bookish); a choir (in Serbia…
• vȁskolikentire, whole (elevated; the ordinary words are čitav, sav)
• nebèsathe heavens (the plural of nebo)
• vȉtēza knight
• drȇvnīancient (literary)
• bèsmrtanimmortal (from smrt, death)
• sudbìnafate, destiny
• junáštvoheroism, valour (from junak, a hero)
• čȃsthonour (feminine); a treat (as in ‘it’s my treat’)

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