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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یورغان (yorğan), from earlier Proto-Turkic *yogurgan (“blanket”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɔɾɡan/
- Hyphenation: jor‧gan
Noun
jorgan m (plural jorganë, definite jorgani, definite plural jorganët)
- quilt
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*jorgan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 232
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یورغان (yorğan).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jǒrɡan/
- Hyphenation: jor‧gan
Noun
jòrgan m (Cyrillic spelling јо̀рган)
- (Bosnia, Serbia, regional Croatian) comforter, quilt
- Synonym: (Croatia) poplun
Declension