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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda) (compare Turkish sevda (“love”)), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black ”), translation of the Greek μέλαινα χολή (mélaina kholḗ) from which the term melancholy is derived.
Akin to sevdàlīnka, sevdàlija, sevdàluk, sèvdi, sèvdisati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sěʋdaːx/
- Hyphenation: sev‧dah
Noun
sèvdāh m (Cyrillic spelling сѐвда̄х)
- (regional) love, lovesickness
- (regional) yearning for love
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References
- “sevdah” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 561