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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یأجوج و مأجوج (yeʼcuc ve meʼcuc, “Gog and Magog”),[1] crossed with xhuxh (“dwarf”) and often reanalysed as literally meaning some sort of “dwarf more dwarf”, or “ shorter dwarf”.
Pronunciation
Noun
xhuxhmaxhuxh m (plural xhuxhmaxhuxhë)
- (folklore) dwarf, gnome
- Synonym: xhuxh
2011, Janaq Pani, “Një xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in www.zemrashqiptare.net, archived from the original on 2023-09-07, lines 1–2:Një xhuxhmaxhuxh takoj një herë / që rrinte qetë nën një zambak […]- I ran into a dwarf once, / who was sitting quitely under a lily
- short-legged person, shorty, midget
- Synonyms: shkurtabiq, xhuxh
Adjective
xhuxhmaxhuxh (feminine xhuxhmaxhuxhe)
- short, short-legged
- Synonyms: xhuxh, i shkurtër, shkurtabiq
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 516
Further reading
- “xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2202
- Jungg, G. (1895) “gugimâguug”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 186
- Topalli, K. (2017) “xhuxhmaxhuxh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1606