Sarajevo

Sarajevo

See also: Sarajevó

English

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɑɹəˈjeɪvəʊ/

  • Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
   • 2003, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, “War Zones”, in Living History‎, →ISBN, OCLC 249479603, 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.

2. A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Derived terms

• Sarajevan

Translations

city

Albanian: Sarajeva (sq) f, Sarajevë f (indefinite) Amharic: ሳራዬቮ (sarayevo) Arabic: سَارَايِيفُو‎ f (sārāyīfū), سَرَايِيفُو‎ f (sarāyīfū) Hijazi Arabic: سراييڤو‎ f (sarāyēvu), سَرَييڤو‎ f (sarayēvu) Armenian: Սարաևո (Saraewo) Azerbaijani: Sarayevo (az) Belarusian: Сара́ева m or n (Sarájeva) Bengali: সারায়েভো (sarayebho) Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo) Burmese: ဆာရာယေဗိုမြို့ (hcarayebui-mrui.) Chinese: Cantonese: 薩拉熱窩, 萨拉热窝 (saat3 laai1 jit6 wo1) Mandarin: 薩拉熱窩／萨拉热窝 (zh) (Sàlārèwō) Czech: Sarajevo (cs) n Danish: Sarajevo n Dutch: Sarajevo n Esperanto: Sarajevo (eo) Estonian: Sarajevo (et) Finnish: Sarajevo (fi) French: Sarajevo (fr) f Galician: Saraievo (gl) Georgian: სარაიევო (saraievo) German: Sarajevo (de) n, Sarajewo (de) n Greek: Σαράγεβο (el) n (Sarágevo), Σαράγιεβο (el) n (Sarágievo) Hebrew: סָרָיֶיבוֹ \\ סאראייבו‎‎ f (saráyevo) Hindi: सरायेवो m (sarāyevo) Hungarian: Szarajevó (hu) Icelandic: Sarajevó Indonesian: Sarajevo Inuktitut: ᓴᕋᔩᕗ (sarayiifo) Irish: Sairéavó m Italian: Sarajevo (it) Japanese: サラエボ (Saraebo), サライェヴォ (Sarayevo), サラエヴォ (Saraevo) Kazakh: Сараево (Saraevo) Khmer: សារ៉ាយ៉េវ៉ូ (km) (saaraayeevou) Korean: 사라예보 (Sarayebo) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Sarayevo Kyrgyz: Сараево (Sarayevo) Lao: ຊາຣາເຍໂວ (sā rā nyē wō), ຊາຣາເຢໂວ (sā rā yē wō), ຊາລາເຢໂວ (sā lā yē wō) Latin: Seraium n Latvian: Sarajeva f Lithuanian: Sarajevas m Macedonian: Сараево (mk) n (Saraevo) Malay: Sarajevo Maltese: Sarajevo Mongolian: Cyrillic: Сараево (Sarajevo) Navajo: Sawayééwo Norwegian: Bokmål: Sarajevo Ottoman Turkish: سرای بوسنه‎ (saray bosna), بوسنه سرایی‎ (bosna sarayı) Pashto: سراييوو‎ m (sarayewo) Persian: سارایوو‎ (sârâyevo), سرایوو‎ (sarâyevo) Polish: Sarajewo (pl) n Portuguese: Sarajevo (pt) f, Saraievo (pt) f Romanian: Sarajevo (ro) Russian: Сара́ево (ru) m or n (Sarájevo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Са̀рајево n Roman: Sàrajevo (sh) n Slovak: Sarajevo n Slovene: Sarajevo n Swedish: Sarajevo (sv) n Tajik: Сараево (Sarayevo) Tamil: சாரயேவோ (cārayēvō) Tatar: Сараево (Sarayewo) Thai: ซาราเยโว (th) (saa-raa-yee-woo) Turkish: Saraybosna (tr), Bosnasaray, Bosna Sarayı, Saray (tr) Turkmen: Saraýbosna, Saraýewo Ukrainian: Сара́єво n (Sarájevo) Urdu: سرائیوو‎ m (sarā'yevo) Uyghur: سارايېۋو‎ (sarayëwo) Uzbek: Sarayevo Vietnamese: Xa-rai-ê-vô Yiddish: סאַראַיעוואָ‎ n (sarayevo)

canton

Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo)

References

1. Etymology in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
2. Velikonja, Mitja (2003) Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina‎, Texas A&M University Press, page 55
3. Tomašević, Nebojša (1983) Treasures of Yugoslavia‎, Yugoslaviapublic, page 315

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای‎ (saray, “house, mansion, palace”), from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “inn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saraˈjevo]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -evo
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

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

Holonyms

• Bosnio kaj Hercegovino

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Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/

Proper noun

Sarajevo

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa.je.vo/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

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

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʁaˌjeːvo/, /ˌsaʁaˈjeːvo/, /zaʁa-/, /-jɛvo/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (proper noun, genitive Sarajevos or (optionally with an article) Sarajevo)

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

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo [sg-only, neuter, toponym]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	das	Sarajevo
genitive	des	Sarajevos, Sarajevo1
dative	dem	Sarajevo
accusative	das	Sarajevo

¹Optionally with an article.

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Icelandic

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

1. Alternative form of Sarajevó

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Saraievo (Brazilian)

Proper noun

Sarajevo f (European spelling)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سرای‎ (saray) (from Persian سرای‎ (sarây, “house, palace”)) and اووه‎ (ova, “plain, lowland”) (from Proto-Turkic [Term?]).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǎra(j)eʋo/
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Proper noun

Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево)

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

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo

	singular
nominative	Sarajevo
genitive	Sarajeva
dative	Sarajevu
accusative	Sarajevo
vocative	Sarajevo
locative	Sarajevu
instrumental	Sarajevom

Related terms

• Sarajlija

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajevo]

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive singular Sarajeva, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

References

• Sarajevo in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swedish

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

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