севдах

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سودا (sevda) (compare Turkish sevda (“love”)), from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black [bile]”), translation of the Greek μέλαινα χολή (mélaina kholḗ) from which the term melancholy is derived.

Akin to севда̀лӣнка, севда̀лија, севда̀лук, сѐвди, сѐвдисати.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěʋdaːx/
• Hyphenation: сев‧дах

Noun

сѐвда̄х m (Latin spelling sèvdāh)

1. love, lovesickness
2. yearning for love

Declension

Declension of севдах

	singular	plural
nominative	севдах	севдаси
genitive	севда́ха	севдаха
dative	севдаху	севдасима
accusative	севдах	севдахе
vocative	севдаше	севдаси
locative	севдаху	севдасима
instrumental	севдахом	севдасима

References

• “севдах”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 561