Where does “муштерија” come from?
муштерија (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ottoman Turkish مشتری, from Arabic مُشْتَرٍ, from Arabic ر, from Arabic رَأَى — to see.
муштерија (Serbo-Croatian): customer, buyer
Ancestry of “муштерија”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | مشتری | — |
| 2 | Arabic | مُشْتَرٍ | buyer, seller |
| 3 | Arabic | ر | second-person masculine singular active... |
| 4 | Arabic | رَأَى | to see |