sevdah

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Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda) (compare Turkish sevda (“love”)), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black [bile]”), translation of the Greek μέλαινα χολή (mélaina kholḗ) from which the term melancholy is derived.

Akin to sevdàlīnka, sevdàlija, sevdàluk, sèvdi, sèvdisati.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sěʋdaːx/
  • Hyphenation: sev‧dah

Noun[edit]

sèvdāh m (Cyrillic spelling сѐвда̄х)

  1. (regional) love, lovesickness
  2. (regional) yearning for love

Declension[edit]

Declension of sevdah
singular plural
nominative sevdah sevdasi
genitive sevdáha sevdaha
dative sevdahu sevdasima
accusative sevdah sevdahe
vocative sevdaše sevdasi
locative sevdahu sevdasima
instrumental sevdahom sevdasima

Synonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “sevdah” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 561
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