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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سودالی (sevdalı), equivalent to sèvdāh + -lija. Akin to sèvdāh, sevdàlīnka, sevdàluk, sèvdi, sèvdisati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seʋdǎlija/
- Hyphenation: sev‧da‧li‧ja
Noun
sevdàlija m (Cyrillic spelling севда̀лија)
- (regional) a man in love
- Synonym: zaljubljènīk
Declension
References
- Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 562