avashllëk

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Albanian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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avashllëk m (uncountable)

  1. slowness, sluggishness
    Synonyms: plogështi, ngadalësi

References

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