avash-avash
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواش یواش (yavaş yavaş). By surface analysis, reduplication of avash (“slowly”).
Adverb[edit]
avash-avash (colloquial)
- little by little, very slowly, gradually
- Synonym: dalëngadalë
- Avash-avash bëhet shelegu dash.
- Little strokes fell great oaks. (proverb)
- (literally, “Little by little the lamb becomes a ram.”)
References[edit]
- “avash-avash”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 76a
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “javash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 227