avash

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • javásh (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواش‎, یاواش‎ (yavaş, “slow, calm”),[1][2] whence Turkish yavaş. Compare Romanian iavaș.

Adverb

avásh (colloquial)

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

Derived terms

References
  1. Meyer, Gustav (1891), “javáš”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, page 162
  2. Bufli, Gjorgji; Luciano, Rocchi (2021), “javash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 227

Further reading
  • “avash”, in FGjSh: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “avash”, in FGjSSh: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
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