abrash

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English

Persian rug showing irregular blue colors (abrash)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish abraş, from Ottoman Turkish ابراش, from Arabic أَبْرَش (ʔabraš, “dappled, mottled”).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.bɹəʃ/, /ˈɑ.bɹɑʃ/

Noun

abrash (plural abrashes)

  1. A variation in color (often applied to Oriental rugs).

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابراش (abraş), from Arabic أَبْرَش (ʔabraš).[1][2] Compare Romanian abraș.

Alternative forms

Adjective

abrash (feminine abrashe) (colloquial, often nominalised)

  1. blond (of people)
  2. freckled (of people)
  3. spotted, piebald (of horses)
  4. variegated, motley
    Synonyms: i larmë, laraman
  5. (figuratively) rude, unfriendly
    Synonyms: i prapë, i vrazhdë
Derived terms
Further reading
  • “abrash”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “abrash”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Likely a variant of abresh (“dark-skinned (of a fruit)”). Possibly from above,[2] though that would be semantically difficult.[1]

Noun

abrash m (definite abrashi)

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

  1. cockroach
    Synonyms: furrtare, kacabu

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “abrash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954)‎, Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Meyer, G. (1891) “abráš”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 2
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