سرای بوسنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سرای (saray, “house, mansion, palace”) + بوسنه (bosna, “Bosnia”).

Proper noun

سرای بوسنه • (saray bosna)

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

Descendants

• Turkish: Saraybosna

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرای بوسنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1048
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Saraybosna”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 661