željkovati

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

željeti +‎ -kati +‎ -ovati.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒêʎkoʋati/
  • Hyphenation: želj‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

žȅljkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏љковати)

  1. (expressive) to yearn for, to long for (something)
  2. (expressive) to miss (someone)

References

  • željkovati”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
  • Josip Jedvaj, editor (1976), “žȅljkovati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 23, Zagreb: JAZU, page 313