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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěnь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sjêna/
- Hyphenation: сје‧на
Noun
сје̏на f (Latin spelling sjȅna)
- shadow
- silhouette
- shade
- umbrage
- ghost
1982, Јадранка Стојаковић (lyrics and music), “Sve smo mogli mi”:Никога нема у сивом граду
улице моје кораке краду
и ја као сјена сад лутам- Nobody is around in the empty city
the streets steal my paces
and I am strolling like a ghost.
- wraith
- adumbration, shading
- hatching
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Further reading
- “сјена”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024