[sbacic]

Nevera means "storm" or alternatively "squall" in Croatian, which is where the car got its name.

[zagrebian]

Not just any storm. It’s a storm on the Croatian coast that comes suddenly and doesn’t last long. When pronouncing the word, the emphasis is on the second syllable: neh-VEH-rah

Source: My Dalmatian father

[runnerup]

TIL Dalmatia is a region in Croatia and the origin of the dog breed “Dalmatian”

[exhilaration]

Thank you for the explanation, my mind initially went to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

[matek]

>It’s a storm on the Croatian coast that comes suddenly and doesn’t last long

That would be neverin.

Nevera is a storm/thunderstorm in the Adriatic in general, not necessarily a short lasting one.

[davidw]

I wonder what the etymology is. Sounds superficially like "neve", Italian for snow, but it doesn't sound like it's an actual snowstorm.

[matek]

>I wonder what the etymology is.

Yep, it's of Romance origin, etymological dictionaries list it as originating in Venetian nevèra, with an understandable semantic shift.

[pxmpxm]

Same thing? The root of the word seems to be disbelief ne + vjera

[matek]

>Same thing?

I was commenting on the "short lasting" part (and the nuances between neverin vs nevera, first one being for "short lasting" storms/thunderstorms, the latter being more generic).

>The root of the word seems to be disbelief ne + vjera

The word is completely unrelated to disbelief, it's of Venetian origin (< nevèra, meaning snow blizzard).

[mywittyname]

> Source: My Dalmatian father

And confirmed by Miro Zrncevic when he and Nevera appeared on Jay Leno's Garage.

He spent about a minute explaining the term in detail and you nailed it.

[bitL]

Isn't that "Bora"?

[taubek]

Bora is the wind that blows from coast towards the sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(wind)

[zagrebian]

If Rimac makes a car with that name, it’s probably going to be Bura because that’s how we write it in Croatia.

[narimiran]

> If Rimac makes a car with that name

There already exists Volkswagen Bora, which was a sedan version of Golf 4. (Basically, a renamed Jetta; just like Vento in the generation before)

[t0mislav]

No. Bora is strong wind and can last for days.

[narimiran]

> Bora is strong wind

Fun fact: Jugo (another frequent wind on Adriatic coast) is even stronger wind, but what makes bora/bura special are strong sudden gusts.

[Melting_Harps]

> Fun fact: Jugo (another frequent wind on Adriatic coast) is even stronger wind, but what makes bora/bura special are strong sudden gusts.

I saw it jack-knife a semi truck on my way back from Dalamatia to Istria, all my Life I ave seen the aftermath of the Santa Ana winds in SoCal but I've never seen it happen in person, but I was stalking that truck for at least 15 mins keeping my distance as the the carriage swayed hard left an right as the Bura got stronger as we got higher in elevation.

Eventually the hitch thing that attaches to the front part of the truck snapped and sent it flying into the air and then sliding down the road, it blocked the entire 3 lane road. I checked to make sure the guy was fine and then left when the police showed up.

Ironically, I had a Bura beer [0] with my food at a cafe as I was waiting for the rain to stop. I got hme to Istria pretty late, and all my patio furniture was tossed up, The Bura is no joke, but it has a cleansing effect; everything felt lighter after that storm.

0: https://www.burabrew.hr/our-beer/

[narimiran]

> semi truck on my way back from Dalamatia to Istria

I can guess that was under Velebit, where bura is often very strong and at those times the road is closed for motorcycles, campers, double-deckers and vehicles with trailers.

But people regularly ignore those restrictions because they are not aware of the danger.

[barrenko]

Bora can be a part of Nevera.

[stefs]

> and doesn’t last long

oh well

[richrichardsson]

Google translate unhelpfully suggests it's "infidelity" (Nevjera, not even the same word!), so thank you for clearing that up.

I'm always frustrated (and I'm not even a native Croatian speaker) that automotive journalists often pronounce the company name "Reemack".

[dsego]

Nevera can also be a variant for nevjera in the ekavian* dialect, eg. serbian language would use it (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nevera#Serbo-Croatian). Although the stress is different (/něʋera/ vs /něʋeːra/).

(*) dialects on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialects_of_Serbo-Croatian#Div...

One of the provided examples has variations of the word "vjera" meaning faith in each dialect, ne-vjera is basically non-faith.

> faith věra vera vira vjera

[Symbiote]

Wiktionary is often the best dictionary for this kind of query: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nevera

[moonchrome]

It's a dialect word at that - which is probably why google translation doesn't check out

[saiya-jin]

in another Slavic language, Slovakian, "nevera" means outright infidelity. In Czech its almost same word, "nevěra"