See also: cak, and čăk Serbo-Croatian Alternative forms čăk (Torlakian) Etymology Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چاق (çak). Pronunciation IPA(key): /t͡ʃâk/ Adverb čȁk (Cyrillic spelling ча̏к) even (used to emphasize something surprising or extreme) Čak i moja baba zna da to nije istina! ― Even my grandmother knows that that is not true! even (emphasizing a comparative) Bilo je teško, a sad je čak i teže. ― It was difficult, and now it is even more difficult. Synonyms jȍš Veps Etymology Probably from Proto-Finnic *sakëda Noun čak blood References Nirvi, R. E. (1950) “Eräistä likaa ja rikkaa merkitsevien sanojen käyttötavoista”, in Virittäjä (in Finnish), pages 400-403Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.