Sarajevo

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]

• IPA^(key): /ˌsæ.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/, /ˈsæ.ɹə.jeɪ.voʊ/, /ˌsɑː.ɹəˈjeɪ.voʊ/, /ˈsɑː.ɹə.jeɪ.voʊ/

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Sarajevo

1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
   • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

• Sarajevan

Sarajevo

1. alternative spelling of Sarajewo

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajɛvo]

Sarajevo n (relational adjective sarajevský)

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

• “Sarajevo”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo.

• IPA^(key): /saː.raːˈjeː.voː/

Sarajevo n

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

• Sarajevo on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

• IPA^(key): /saraˈjevo/

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

Sarajevo (accusative Sarajevon)

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

• Bosnio kaj Hercegovino

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• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑrɑjevo/, [ˈsɑrɑ̈ˌjevo]
• Hyphenation: Sa‧ra‧je‧vo

Sarajevo (genitive Sarajevo, partitive Sarajevot)

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

Declension of Sarajevo (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Sarajevo	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Sarajevo
genitive			—
partitive		Sarajevot	—
illative		Sarajevosse	—
inessive		Sarajevos	—
elative		Sarajevost	—
allative		Sarajevole	—
adessive		Sarajevol	—
ablative		Sarajevolt	—
translative		Sarajevoks	—
terminative		Sarajevoni	—
essive		Sarajevona	—
abessive		Sarajevota	—
comitative		Sarajevoga	—

• “Sarajevo”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “Sarajevo”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• Sarajevo in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /sa.ʁa.je.vo/

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Sarajevo ?

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

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

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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)

Sarajevo f (proper noun, indeclinable)

1. alternative form of Sarajevó

• IPA^(key): /sa.raˈjɛ.vo/
• Rhymes: -ɛvo

Sarajevo f

1. Sarajevo (the capital city of Bosnia ed Erzegovina)

   Synonym: (historical) Seraievo

• Bosnia ed Erzegovina

Sarajevo ?

1. alternative spelling of Saraievo

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

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

Sàrajevo n (Cyrillic spelling Са̀рајево)

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

• Sarajlija

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajevɔ]

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

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

• “Sarajevo”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /sàːrajɛʋɔ/

Sárajevo n

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Sárajevo
genitive	Sárajeva
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Sárajevo
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Sárajeva
dative (dajȃlnik)	Sárajevu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Sárajevo
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Sárajevu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Sárajevom

• Sárajevčan / Sárajevčanka
• sárajevski

• “Sarajevo”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Sarajevo”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

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