дембел

Macedonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تنبل (tembel, dembel), from Persian تنبل (tanbal).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛmbɛɫ]

Noun

дембел • (dembel) m (plural дембели)

  1. (colloquial) idler

References
  • Belčev, Tole (2016) “дембел”, in Речник на турцизми, архаизми, дијалектизми и ретко употребувани зборови во македонскиот јазик [Dictionary of Turkisms, Archaisms, Dialectisms and Rarely Used Words in the Macedonian Language]‎ (in Macedonian), Štip: UGD, →ISBN, page 46
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