سرای بوسنه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سرای (saray, “house, mansion, palace”) + بوسنه (bosna, “Bosnia”).

Proper noun

سرای بوسنه • (saray bosna)

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

Descendants
  • Turkish: Saraybosna

Further reading
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سرای بوسنه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1048
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Saraybosna”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 661
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