ćovaxani

See also: čovaxani

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian ճիւաղ (čiwał),[1] ճուաղն (čuałn).

Noun

ćovaxani f (nominative plural ćovaxanǎ)

  1. (International Standard) female equivalent of ćovaxano:
    1. ghost, apparition[1][2]
    2. witch, sorceress[1][2][3]
      Synonyms: ćovali, drabarìca, drabarni
      • 2021 August 19 (last accessed), “Culture 1.9: Religion and Beliefs”, in Factsheets on Romani‎ (in English), archived from the original on date unknown:
        The original Romani term for witch is čoxani/čovaxani, while loanwords from the contact language are also used, like bosorka in Slovak Romani, vražitoŕa in Ursari Romani, veštica in Arli Romani, or džadija in Sepečides Romani.

Descendants
  • Baltic Romani: čovaxani, čovaxanî
  • Carpathian Romani: čohani, tschohani; čohaňi; čohaňi; čoháni
  • Sinte Romani: čovaxani
  • Vlax Romani: čoxani
  • Welsh Romani: čovexani

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čovexaní”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 52b-53a
  2. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ćoxan/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 109b-110a
  3. Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 148
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.