ćhavo

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See also: chavo, chavó, and čhavo

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva, “baby animal”),[1][2] from Sanskrit छाप (chāpa).[1][2] Cognate with Pali chāpa (“the young of an animal”), Marathi छावा (chāvā, “cub”) and Bengali ছা (cha, “the young of an animal, infant child”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰa.ˈvo/, /ɕa.ˈvo/, /ʃa.ˈvo/, /ʃaʊ/

Noun

ćhavo m anim (accusative ćhaves, nominative plural ćhave, accusative plural ćhaven)

  1. (International Standard)
    1. Romani boy[2][3][4]
      Synonyms: (Romani man) rrom, (Romani woman) rromni, (Romani girl) ćhaj
      Antonyms: (gadje man) gaʒo, (gadje woman) gaʒi, (gadje boy) raklo, (gadje girl) rakli
    2. son[2][3][4]

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Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*chāpa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 275
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhavó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 55b
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o ćhav/o, -es m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 115b
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
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