Pita is the Bosnian umbrella term for filled phyllo pies, with sirnica (cheese), krompirusa (potato), zeljanica (spinach) and tikvenica (pumpkin). The Bosnian dialect reserves 'burek' for meat versions only.

Pita came through the Ottoman borek tradition and split into the Bosnian phyllo family across the late Ottoman and Habsburg periods, the dialect split where Bosnians reserve 'burek' for the meat version only setting Sarajevo apart from Belgrade and Istanbul usage. The Sarajevo buregdzinice on Bravadziluk pull all four variants daily, with seasonal shifts toward zeljanica (spinach) in spring and tikvenica (pumpkin) in autumn.

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