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Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěnь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sjêna/
- Hyphenation: sje‧na
Noun
sjȅna f (Cyrillic spelling сје̏на)
- shadow
- Tamo gdje je svjetlo, mora postojati sjena, a gdje je sjena mora biti svjetlo
- Where light is, there must be a shadow, and where the shadow is, must be light.
- silhouette
- shade
- umbrage
- ghost
1982, Jadranka Stojaković (lyrics and music), “Sve smo mogli mi”:Nikoga nema u praznom gradu
Ulice moje korake kradu
I ja kao sjena sad lutam.- 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
- “sjena” in Hrvatski jezični portal