sevdi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سودی (sevdi), third-person singular past definite indicative of سومك (sevmek) (Turkish sevmek (“to love”)), used as a participle in Serbo-Croatian. Akin to sevdàlīnka, sevdàlija, sevdàluk, sèvdāh, sèvdisati.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sěʋdi/
  • Hyphenation: sev‧di

Adjective

sèvdi m (Cyrillic spelling сѐвди) (indeclinable)

  1. (regional) beloved
  2. (regional) in love

References
  • Škaljić, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 562

Turkish

Verb

sevdi

  1. third-person singular indicative simple past of sevmek
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