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sevdalinka

sevdalinka noun: a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.

Noun

sevdalinka (countable and uncountable, plural sevdalinkas)

  1. (uncountable) A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.
  2. (countable) A piece composed in this style.

Forms of sevdalinka

pluralsevdalinkas

Origin of sevdalinka

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian sevdalinka, a compound of Ottoman Turkish سودالی (sevdalı, “lover”) + -inka, the first element deriving from Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “black [bile]; melancholy”) + Ottoman Turkish ـلی (-lı).

Questions about sevdalinka

What does sevdalinka mean?
Sevdalinka means a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.
What part of speech is sevdalinka?
Sevdalinka is a noun.
What is the plural of sevdalinka?
The plural of sevdalinka is sevdalinkas.

Words near sevdalinka in the dictionary

  1. Sevareid
  2. Sevastopol
  3. Sevatian
  4. Sevcik
  5. Sevciks
  6. sevdalinka
  7. sevdalinkas
  8. seveare
  9. sevearer
  10. sevearest
  11. sevelamer

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