Sarajevo
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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]
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Sarajevo
- The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.
- A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Sarajevo
- Alternative spelling of Sarajewo
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Sarajevo n (related adjective sarajevský)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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- Sarajevo in Internetová jazyková příručka
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Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای (saray, “house, mansion, palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).
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Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Sarajevo (genitive Sarajevo, partitive Sarajevot)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Declension of Sarajevo (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | Sarajevo | — | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | Sarajevo | ||
genitive | — | ||
partitive | Sarajevot | — | |
illative | Sarajevosse | — | |
inessive | Sarajevos | — | |
elative | Sarajevost | — | |
allative | Sarajevole | — | |
adessive | Sarajevol | — | |
ablative | Sarajevolt | — | |
translative | Sarajevoks | — | |
terminative | Sarajevoni | — | |
essive | Sarajevona | — | |
abessive | Sarajevota | — | |
comitative | Sarajevoga | — |
Further reading edit
- “Sarajevo”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “Sarajevo”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- Sarajevo in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
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Sarajevo ?
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Sarajevo n (proper noun, genitive Sarajevos or (optionally with an article) Sarajevo)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Sarajevo ?
- Alternative form of Sarajevó
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Sarajevo
- Alternative spelling of Saraievo
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From Ottoman Turkish سرای (saray) (from Persian سرای (sarây, “house, palace”)) and اووه (ova, “plain, lowland”) (from Proto-Turkic [Term?]).
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Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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Sarajevo n (genitive singular Sarajeva, declension pattern of mesto)
- Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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- “Sarajevo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)
- Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Sarajevo (a canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina)