sevdah

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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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 sevdàlīnka, sevdàlija, sevdàluk, sèvdi, sèvdisati.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sěʋdaːx/
  • Hyphenation: sev‧dah

Noun

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sèvdāh m (Cyrillic spelling сѐвда̄х)

  1. (regional) love, lovesickness
  2. (regional) yearning for love

Declension

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Synonyms

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References

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