Sarajevo

See also: Sarajevó

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).), and ova "plain, lowland".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsæ.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/, /ˈsæ.ɹə.jeɪ.voʊ/, /ˌsɑː.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/, /ˈsɑː.ɹə.jeɪ.voʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
   • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:

     I had planned a stop in Sarajevo to meet with a multiethnic delegation to hear their ideas about what the United States government and private organizations could do to help heal a society ripped apart by war. The security situation forced me to cancel my trip to Sarajevo, but the people I was to meet were so disappointed that they insisted on braving the journey along fifty miles of treacherous roads to meet me in Tuzla.

2. A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Derived terms

• Sarajevan

Translations

city

• Afrikaans: Sarajewo
• Albanian: Sarajeva (sq) f, Sarajevë f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ሳራዬቮ (sarayevo)
• Arabic: سَارَايِيفُو f (sārāyīfū), سَرَايِيفُو f (sarāyīfū)
• Armenian: Սարաևո (Saraewo)
• Asturian: Sarayevo (ast), Sarayevu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Sarayevo (az),

  Cyrillic: Сарајево (az)

• Belarusian: Сара́ева m or n (Sarájeva)
• Bengali: সারায়েভো (bn) (śaraẏebhō)
• Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo)
• Burmese: ဆာရာယေဗိုမြို့ (hcarayebuimrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 薩拉熱窩 / 萨拉热窝 (saat³ laai¹ jit⁶ wo¹)

  Mandarin: 薩拉熱窩 / 萨拉热窝 (zh) (Sàlārèwō)

• Czech: Sarajevo (cs) n
• Danish: Sarajevo n
• Dutch: Sarajevo (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sarajevo (eo)
• Estonian: Sarajevo (et)
• Farefare: Sarayevo
• Finnish: Sarajevo (fi)
• French: Sarajevo (fr) f
• Galician: Saraievo (gl)
• Georgian: სარაევო (saraevo)
• German: Sarajevo (de) n, Sarajewo (de) n
• Greek: Σαράγεβο (el) n (Sarágevo), Σεράγεβο (el) n (Serágevo)
• Hebrew: סָרָיֶיבוֹ \ סאראייבו f (saráyevo)
• Hindi: सारायेवो m (sārāyevo)
• Hungarian: Szarajevó (hu)
• Icelandic: Sarajevó
• Indonesian: Sarajevo
• Inuktitut: ᓴᕋᔩᕗ (sarayiifo)
• Irish: Sairéavó m
• Italian: Sarajevo (it), Seraievo
• Japanese: サラエボ (ja) (Saraebo), サライェヴォ (ja) (Sarayevo), サラエヴォ (ja) (Saraevo)
• Kazakh: Сараево (Saraevo)
• Khmer: សារ៉ាយ៉េវ៉ូ (km) (saaraayeevou)
• Korean: 사라예보 (Sarayebo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Sarayevo

• Kyrgyz: Сараево (Sarayevo)
• Lao: ຊາຣາເຍໂວ (sā rā nyē wō), ຊາຣາເຢໂວ (sā rā yē wō), ຊາລາເຢໂວ (sā lā yē wō)
• Latin: Seraium n
• Latvian: Sarajeva f
• Lithuanian: Sarajevas m
• Macedonian: Сараево (mk) n (Saraevo)
• Malay: Sarajevo
• Maltese: Sarajevo
• Marathi: सारायेव्हो (sārāyevho)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Сараево (Sarajevo)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sarajevo

• Ottoman Turkish: سرای بوسنه (saray bosna), بوسنه سرایی (bosna sarayı)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Сараєво n (Sarajevo)
• Pashto: سراييوو m (sarayewo)
• Persian: سارایوو (sârâyevo), سرایوو (sarâyevo)
• Polish: Sarajewo (pl) n
• Portuguese: Saraievo (pt)
• Romanian: Sarajevo (ro)
• Russian: Сара́ево (ru) m or n (Sarájevo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Са̀рајево n

  Roman: Sàrajevo (sh) n

• Slovak: Sarajevo n
• Slovene: Sarajevo n
• Spanish: Sarajevo (es)
• Swedish: Sarajevo (sv) n
• Tajik: Сараево (Sarayevo)
• Tamil: சாரயேவோ (cārayēvō)
• Tatar: Сараево (Sarayıwo)
• Thai: ซาราเยโว (th) (saa-raa-yee-woo)
• Turkish: Saraybosna (tr), Bosnasaray, Bosna Sarayı, Saray (tr)
• Turkmen: Saraýbosna, Saraýewo
• Ukrainian: Сара́єво (uk) n (Sarájevo)
• Urdu: سرائیوو m (sarā'yevo)
• Uyghur: سارايېۋو (sarayëwo)
• Uzbek: Sarayevo
• Vietnamese: Xa-rai-ê-vô
• Yiddish: סאַראַיעוואָ n (sarayevo)

canton

• Afrikaans: Sarajewo
• Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo)
• Korean: 사라예보 (sarayebo)
• Marathi: सारायेव्हो (sārāyevho)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. alternative spelling of Sarajewo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajɛvo]

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (relational adjective sarajevský)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Sarajevo
genitive	Sarajeva
dative	Sarajevu
accusative	Sarajevo
vocative	Sarajevo
locative	Sarajevě, Sarajevu
instrumental	Sarajevem

Further reading

• “Sarajevo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saː.raːˈjeː.voː/

Proper noun

Sarajevo n

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Further reading

• Sarajevo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای (saray, “house, mansion, palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saraˈjevo/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -evo
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Holonyms

• Bosnio kaj Hercegovino

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/, [ˈsɑrɑ̈ˌjevo]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sarajevo (genitive Sarajevo, partitive Sarajevot)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Sarajevo	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Sarajevo
genitive			—
partitive		Sarajevot	—
illative		Sarajevosse	—
inessive		Sarajevos	—
elative		Sarajevost	—
allative		Sarajevole	—
adessive		Sarajevol	—
ablative		Sarajevolt	—
translative		Sarajevoks	—
terminative		Sarajevoni	—
essive		Sarajevona	—
abessive		Sarajevota	—
comitative		Sarajevoga	—

Further reading

• “Sarajevo”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “Sarajevo”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• Sarajevo in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa.je.vo/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʁaˌjeːvo/, /ˌsaʁaˈjeːvo/, /zaʁa-/, /-jɛvo/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (proper noun, genitive Sarajevos or (optionally with an article) Sarajevo)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Sarajevo
genitive	des	Sarajevos, Sarajevo1
dative	dem	Sarajevo
accusative	das	Sarajevo

¹Optionally with an article.

Icelandic

Proper noun

Sarajevo f (proper noun, indeclinable)

1. alternative form of Sarajevó

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.raˈjɛ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛvo

Proper noun

Sarajevo f

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia ed Erzegovina)

   Synonym: (historical) Seraievo

See also

• Bosnia ed Erzegovina

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

1. alternative spelling of Saraievo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سرای (saray, from Classical Persian سرای (sarāy, “house, palace”)) and اوا (ova, “plain, lowland, meadow”, from Proto-Turkic *oba (“cavity, valley”)). Compare the name of the village of Sarayova in Turkey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎra(j)eʋo/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево, demonym Saràjlija, female demonym Sàrājka)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo

	singular
nominative	Sarajevo
genitive	Sarajeva
dative	Sarajevu
accusative	Sarajevo
vocative	Sarajevo
locative	Sarajevu
instrumental	Sarajevom

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajevɔ]

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive singular Sarajeva, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

References

• “Sarajevo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sàːrajɛʋɔ/

Proper noun

Sárajevo n

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Sárajevo
genitive	Sárajeva
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sárajevo
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Sárajeva
dative (dajȃlnik)	Sárajevu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Sárajevo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sárajevu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Sárajevom

Related terms

• Sárajevčan / Sárajevčanka
• sárajevski

References

• “Sarajevo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Sarajevo”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Swedish

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2. Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)