لافزن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• لافزان (lafazan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian لافزن (lāfzen, “boaster, braggart”), from لاف (lāf).

Noun

لافزن • (lafazan)

1. windbag, braggart

   Synonym: كوزه (geveze)

Related terms

• لاف (laf)

Descendants

• Turkish: lafazan
• → Albanian: llafazan
• → Armenian: լաֆազան (lafazan), լափազան (lapʻazan)
• → Aromanian: lafãzan
• → Bulgarian: лафаза́н (lafazán)
• → Georgian: ლაფაზანაი (lapazanai) — Chveneburi
• → Greek: λαφαζάνης (lafazánis)
• → Ladino: lafazán
• → Romanian: lafazan

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lafazan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2925
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لافزن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1072
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لافزن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1619–1920