[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”

[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.

[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"?

[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"