sevdah
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (sevda) (compare Turkish sevda (“love”)), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʾ, “black [bile]”), translation of the Greek µέλαινα χολή, mélaina cholē 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
Declension
Declension of sevdah
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sevdah | sevdasi |
| genitive | sevdáha | sevdaha |
| dative | sevdahu | sevdasima |
| accusative | sevdah | sevdahe |
| vocative | sevdaše | sevdasi |
| locative | sevdahu | sevdasima |
| instrumental | sevdahom | sevdasima |
Synonyms
References
- “sevdah” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 561
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