аладжа
Bulgarian edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Adjective edit
аладжа́ • (aladžá)
- (dialectal, indeclinable) colourful, variegated
- Synonyms: разноцве́тен (raznocvéten), ша́рен (šáren)
Derived terms edit
- Аладжа́ манасти́р (rock monastery in Eastern Bulgaria)
Noun edit
аладжа́ • (aladžá)
References edit
- “аладжа”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Nayden Gerov (1895) “*аладжа́ (тур.)”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language][1] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 7