Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواشلق (yavaşlık). By surface analysis, avash (slowly) +‎ -llëk.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

avashllëk m (uncountable)

  1. slowness, sluggishness
    Synonyms: plogështi, ngadalësi

References edit

  • “avashllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 76a