аладжа

Bulgarian

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [ɐɫɐˈdʒa̟]

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Adjective

аладжа́ • (aladžá)

1. (dialectal, indeclinable) colourful, variegated

   Synonyms: разноцве́тен (raznocvéten), ша́рен (šáren)

Derived terms

• Аладжа́ манасти́р (rock monastery in Eastern Bulgaria)

Noun

аладжа́ • (aladžá)

1. (obsolete) variegated or patterned fabric
2. (by extension) dress or cloth made of such fabric

References

• “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