Sarajevo
/ˌsæ.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/
Sarajevo proper noun: the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
Proper noun
Sarajevo
- The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
- 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...2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344
- The Bosnian government.
- A canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sarajevo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Sarajevo in Hindi
- city
- सारायेवो sārāyevo
Sarajevo in Tamil
- city
- சாரயேவோ cārayēvō
Sarajevo in Marathi
- city
- सारायेव्हो sārāyevho
- canton
- सारायेव्हो sārāyevho
Sarajevo in Urdu
- city
- سرائیوو sarā'yevo
More languagesFewer languages
- Sarajevo in Bengali
- সারায়েভো śaraẏebhō
- Sarajevo in Pashto
- سراييوو sarayewo
- Sarajevo in Arabic
- سَارَايِيفُو sārāyīfū, سَرَايِيفُو sarāyīfū
- Sarajevo in Malay
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo in Indonesian
- Sarajevo
- Sarajevo in Persian
- سارایوو sârâyevo, سرایوو sarâyevo
- Sarajevo in Thai
- ซาราเยโว saa-raa-yee-woo
- Sarajevo in Vietnamese
- Xa-rai-ê-vô
- Sarajevo in Myanmar
- ဆာရာယေဗိုမြို့ hcarayebuimrui.
Origin of Sarajevo
From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).), and ova "plain, lowland".
Words formed from Sarajevo
Phrases with Sarajevo
Questions about Sarajevo
- What does Sarajevo mean?
- Sarajevo means the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
- What is Sarajevo in Hindi?
- Sarajevo in Hindi is सारायेवो (sārāyevo). See Sarajevo meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Sarajevo?
- Sarajevo is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Sarajevo?
- Sarajevo is pronounced /ˌsæ.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/.
Words near Sarajevo in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Sarajevo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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