Sarajevo

See also: Sarajevó

English

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای‎, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “inn”).[1]), and ova "plain, lowland".[2][3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌsɑɹəˈjeɪvəʊ/
    • Audio (UK)(file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo

  1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    • 2003, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, “War Zones”, in Living History‎, →ISBN, OCLC 249479603, 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

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [saraˈjevo]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -evo
  • Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

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

Holonyms

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/

Proper noun

Sarajevo

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

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sa.ʁa.je.vo/
  • Audio(file)

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 [sg-only, neuter, toponym]
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

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Sarajevo f (European spelling)

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

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

Slovak

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈsarajevo]

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive singular Sarajeva, declension pattern of mesto)

  1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

References
  • Sarajevo in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Swedish

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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