ćovaxani
See also: čovaxani
Romani edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Armenian ճիւաղ (čiwał),[1] ճուաղն (čuałn).
Noun edit
ćovaxani f (nominative plural ćovaxanǎ)
- (International Standard) female equivalent of ćovaxano:
- ghost, apparition[1][2]
- witch, sorceress[1][2][3]
- 2021 August 19 (last accessed), “Culture 1.9: Religion and Beliefs”, in Factsheets on Romani[1] (in English), archived from the original on date unknown:
- The original Romani term for witch is čoxani/čovaxani, while loanwords from the contact language are also used, like bosorka in Slovak Romani, vražitoŕa in Ursari Romani, veštica in Arli Romani, or džadija in Sepečides Romani.
Descendants edit
- Baltic Romani: čovaxani, čovaxanî
- Carpathian Romani: čohani, tschohani; čohaňi; čohaňi; čoháni
- Sinte Romani: čovaxani
- Vlax Romani: čoxani
- Welsh Romani: čovexani
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čovexaní”, 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, pages 52b-53a
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ćoxan/i, -ǎ ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn”, 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] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 109b-110a
- ^ 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 148