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”).), and ova "plain, lowland".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɑɹəˈjeɪvəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England)

    (file)

Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• Sarajevan

Translations

city

• Afrikaans: Sarajewo
• Albanian: Sarajeva (sq) f, Sarajevë f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ሳራዬቮ (sarayevo)
• Arabic: سَارَايِيفُو f (sārāyīfū), سَرَايِيفُو f (sarāyīfū)
• Armenian: Սարաևո (Saraewo)
• Asturian: Sarayevo (ast), Sarayevu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Sarayevo (az)
• Belarusian: Сара́ева m or n (Sarájeva)
• Bengali: সারায়েভো (śaraẏebhō)
• Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo)
• Burmese: ဆာရာယေဗိုမြို့ (hcarayebuimrui.)
• 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)
• Farefare: Sarayevo
• 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), Σεράγεβο (el) n (Serágevo)
• 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 (ja) (Saraebo), サライェヴォ (ja) (Sarayevo), サラエヴォ (ja) (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: Saraievo (pt)
• 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
• Spanish: Sarajevo (es)
• 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

• Afrikaans: Sarajewo
• Bulgarian: Сара́ево n (Saráevo)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. Alternative spelling of Sarajewo

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajɛvo]

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (related adjective sarajevský)

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

Declension

Declension of Sarajevo (sg-only hard neuter)

	singular
nominative	Sarajevo
genitive	Sarajeva
dative	Sarajevu
accusative	Sarajevo
vocative	Sarajevo
locative	Sarajevě, Sarajevu
instrumental	Sarajevem

Further reading

• Sarajevo in Internetová jazyková příručka

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

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sarajevo (genitive Sarajevo, partitive Sarajevot)

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

Declension

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	—

Further reading

• “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)

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)

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.

Icelandic

Proper noun

Sarajevo ?

1. Alternative form of Sarajevó

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sarajevo

1. Alternative spelling of Saraievo

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

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsarajevɔ]

Proper noun

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

1. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

References

• “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, 2024

Swedish

Proper noun

Sarajevo n (genitive Sarajevos)

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