azgan

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (azgın, excessively fierce and wild, ferocious, mad; disobedient, rebellious).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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azgan (feminine azgane) (colloquial)

  1. tall, well-built
    Synonym: shtathedhur
  2. audacious, daring, bold
    Synonyms: hedhur, shkathët
  3. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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  • 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