azgan

Albanian

Alternative forms

• azgën
• azglan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (azgın, “excessively fierce and wild, ferocious, mad; disobedient, rebellious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /azˈɡan/
• Rhymes: -an

Adjective

azgan (feminine azgane) (colloquial)

1. tall, well-built

   Synonym: shtathedhur

2. audacious, daring, bold

   Synonyms: hedhur, shkathët

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References

• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “azgan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 53-54
• Newmark, L. (1999) “azgan”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[1]
• “azgan”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2] (in Albanian), 1980