jorgan

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یورغان (yorğan), from earlier Proto-Turkic *yogurgan (“blanket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɔɾɡan/
• Hyphenation: jor‧gan

Noun

jorgan m (plural jorganë, definite jorgani, definite plural jorganët)

1. quilt

Declension

Declension of jorgan

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	jorgan	jorganë	jorgani	jorganët
accusative			jorganin
dative	jorgani	jorganëve	jorganit	jorganëvet
ablative		jorganësh

Derived terms

• jorganxhi

Further reading

• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*jorgan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 232

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یورغان (yorğan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jǒrɡan/
• Hyphenation: jor‧gan

Noun

jòrgan m (Cyrillic spelling јо̀рган)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia, regional Croatian) comforter, quilt

   Synonym: (Croatia) poplun

Declension

Declension of jorgan

	singular	plural
nominative	jorgan	jorgani
genitive	jorgana	jorgana
dative	jorganu	jorganima
accusative	jorgan	jorgane
vocative	jorgane	jorgani
locative	jorganu	jorganima
instrumental	jorganom	jorganima