Sarajevo

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See also: Sarajevó

English

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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): /ˌsɑɹəˈjeɪvəʊ/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo

  1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History‎, →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

Translations

References

  1. ^ Etymology in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. ^ Velikonja, Mitja (2003) Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina‎, Texas A&M University Press, page 55
  3. ^ Tomašević, Nebojša (1983) Treasures of Yugoslavia‎, Yugoslaviapublic, page 315

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Sarajevo

  1. Alternative spelling of Sarajewo

Czech

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (related 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

Esperanto

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

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

Holonyms

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/,
  • 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 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

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

1Optionally with an article.

Icelandic

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

  1. Alternative form of Sarajevó

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sarajevo

  1. Alternative spelling of Saraievo

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سرای (saray) (from Persian سرای (sarây, “house, palace”)) and اووه (ova, “plain, lowland”) (from Proto-Turkic ).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево)

  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

Related terms

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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, 2024

Swedish

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Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

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