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noun
A traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, also popular in the ex-Yugoslavia region.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A piece composed in this style.
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Usage: countable
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History
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).
Across languages
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