xoraxaj

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Romani

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Persian قراخان (qarâkhân), of Turkic origin, from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰺𐰀 (qr¹a, black; courageous) (from Proto-Turkic *kara) + 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qǧn¹, khan, ruler) (corresponding to modern English khan). Compare English Karakhanid.[1]

Alternatively, related to English Koranite.

Noun

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xoraxaj m (accusative xoraxajes, nominative plural xoraxaja, accusative plural xoraxajen)

  1. Turk[2][3]
  2. Muslim[2][3][4]
  3. (dialectal) foreigner

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References

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  1. ^ Yaron Matras (2010) “Towards a chronology of Romani migrations”, in Edinburgh University Press, editors, Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 39
  2. 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “xoraxanó”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 117b
  3. 3.0 3.1 Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 107
  4. ^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o xoraxaj, -es m. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 172b