avash

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • javash — archaic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواش (yavaş).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aˈvaʃ/
  • Rhymes: -aʃ
  • Hyphenation: a‧vash

Adverb

avash (colloquial)

  1. slowly
    Synonym: ngadalë
  2. quitely
    Synonym: ngadalë

Derived terms

References
  • “avash”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 75b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “javash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 227
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “javáš”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 162
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