zavidost
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
zavidost f (Cyrillic spelling завидост)
- (archaic, Croatia) envy, jealousy
- 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine:
- ljubavi počituć, od zavidosti mrem;
- venerating love, I die of envy;
- late 16C, Dinko Ranjina, Jednomu ki ništo ne učini a tuđe sve huli:
- Jadovni zleče moj, zavidos s kim bjesni,
- Za zle prem tolikoj ne scijeni me pjesni.
- Oh you my wretched foe, who do with envy rage,
- so great a wrath as yours my poems to not deserve.
- 1893, Mato Vodopić, Marija Konavoka:
- Tako se čini svake godine bez inada i zavidosti, jere sva braća treba da se obrede, što niko ne može izmaknuti gozbi i starješinstvu.
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