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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواش (yavaş).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈvaʃ/
- Rhymes: -aʃ
- Hyphenation: a‧vash
Adverb
avash (colloquial)
- slowly
- Synonym: ngadalë
- quitely
- Synonym: ngadalë
Derived terms
References
- “avash”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 75b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “javash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 227
- Meyer, G. (1891) “javáš”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 162