željkovati

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

željeti +‎ -kati +‎ -ovati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒêʎkoʋati/
• Hyphenation: želj‧ko‧va‧ti

Verb

žȅljkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏љковати)

1. (expressive) to yearn for, to long for (something)
2. (expressive) to miss (someone)

References

• “željkovati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Josip Jedvaj, editor (1976), “žȅljkovati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 23, Zagreb: JAZU, page 313