English Explanatory Dictionary

sevdalinka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

sevdalinka sevdalinkas

Etymology

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).

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