abrash

English

Persian rug showing irregular blue colors (abrash)

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish abraş, from Ottoman Turkish ابراش, from Arabic أَبْرَش (ʔabraš, “dappled, mottled”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.bɹəʃ/, /ˈɑ.bɹɑʃ/

Noun

abrash (plural abrashes)

1. A variation in color (often applied to Oriental rugs).

Anagrams

• Basrah, bahars, Rabhas, Bashar, Bahars, sharab, Barash

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ابراش (abraş), from Arabic أَبْرَش (ʔabraš). Compare Romanian abraș.

Alternative forms

• abrazh

Adjective

abrash (feminine abrashe) (colloquial, often nominalised)

1. blond (of people)
2. freckled (of people)
3. spotted, piebald (of horses)
4. variegated, motley

   Synonyms: i larmë, laraman

5. (figuratively) rude, unfriendly

   Synonyms: i prapë, i vrazhdë

Derived terms

• abrashe

 

Further reading

• “abrash”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “abrash”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2] (in Albanian), 1980

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Likely a variant of abresh (“dark-skinned (of a fruit)”). Possibly from above, though that would be semantically difficult.

Noun

abrash m (definite abrashi)

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1. cockroach

   Synonyms: furrtare, kacabu