Etymology

Sarajevo

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Today it means: The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo ← Ottoman Turkish سرای ← Turkish Saray-ovası
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromسرای“inn”
  2. Turkish · derived fromSaray-ovası
  3. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromسرای
  4. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromSarajevo
  5. English todaySarajevo

From Serbo-Croatian Sarajevo, from Ottoman Turkish سرای, Turkish Saray-ovası, from saray (“palace”), from Persian سرای (sarây, “inn”).), and ova "plain, lowland".

Words from the same roots

Persianسرای all →

saraiserai

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.