See also: chavo, chavó, and čhavo

Romani edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀙𑀸𑀯 (chāva, baby animal),[1][2] from Sanskrit छाप (chāpa).[1][2] Cognate with Pali chāpa (the young of an animal) and Marathi छावा (chāvā, cub).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰa.ˈvo/, /ɕa.ˈvo/, /ʃa.ˈvo/, /ʃaʊ/

Noun edit

ćhavo m anim (accusative ćhaves, nominative plural ćhave, accusative plural ćhaven)

  1. (International Standard)
    1. Romani boy[2][3][4]
      Synonyms: (Romani man) rrom, (Romani woman) rromni, (Romani girl) ćhaj
      Antonyms: (gadje man) gaʒo, (gadje woman) gaʒi, (gadje boy) raklo, (gadje girl) rakli
    2. son[2][3][4]

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Caló: chavó
    • Catalan: xaval
    • Spanish: chavo, chaval
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: tšau
  • Welsh Romani: čavo
  • ? English: chav
  • German: Chabo
  • Hungarian: csávó
  • Romanian: șau, șeau
  • ? Russian: чувак (čuvak)
  • Swedish: tjabo
  • ? Bulgarian: чаве (čave)

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*chāpa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 275
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhavó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 55b
  3. 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o ćhav/o, -es m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 115b
  4. 4.0 4.1 Yūsuke Sumi (2018) ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22