azgan
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (azgın, “excessively fierce and wild, ferocious, mad; disobedient, rebellious”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editazgan (feminine azgane) (colloquial)
- tall, well-built
- Synonym: shtathedhur
- audacious, daring, bold
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References
edit- 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