željkovati
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
željeti + -kati + -ovati.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒêʎkoʋati/
- Hyphenation: želj‧ko‧va‧ti
Verb
žȅljkovati impf (Cyrillic spelling же̏љковати)
- (expressive) to yearn for, to long for (something)
- (expressive) to miss (someone)
References
- “željkovati” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Josip Jedvaj, editor (1976), “žȅljkovati”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 23, Zagreb: JAZU, page 313