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Bulgarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاجه (“colorful”) (whence modern Turkish alaca). Akin to Macedonian ала (ala, “serpent, dragon”), Serbo-Croatian а̏ла (“spotted; dragon”) (borrowed from Ottoman Turkish).
Pronunciation
Adjective
аладжа́ • (aladžá)
- (dialectal, indeclinable) colourful, variegated
- Synonyms: разноцве́тен (raznocvéten), ша́рен (šáren)
Derived terms
Noun
аладжа́ • (aladžá)
- (obsolete) variegated or patterned fabric
- (by extension) dress or cloth made of such fabric
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