avashllëk

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواشلق (yavaşlık). By surface analysis, avash (“slowly”) +‎ -llëk.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ək

Noun

avashllëk m (uncountable)

  1. slowness, sluggishness
    Synonyms: plogështi, ngadalësi

References
  • “avashllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 76a
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