abarabà

Sassarese

Alternative forms

abalabà (Sedini)
avalavà (Castelsardo)

Etymology

From earlier abalabà, from a univerbation of abal'abà (literally “now now”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aβaraˈβa/

Adverb

abarabà

now, right now
- 2013 September 27, Ignazio Sanna, “L’ulthimi dì d’un inutiri avvinì [The last days of a pointless future]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎:
  tantu, abarabà! La meccanica è guastha e di cussì rimani!
  Well, [there's no point] now! The mechanism is out of order, and that's how it's going to stay!
just, just now
now, right away, at once

References

Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 7
Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 25
Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

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