Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A borrowing from Ottoman Turkish چاوش (çavuş).[1]

Noun

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çaush m (plural çaushi) (historical)

  1. army corporal

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çaush”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 104