ganowa

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Lower Sorbian

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Etymology

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From German Ganove, a back-formation from Yiddish גנבֿים (ganovim), plural of גנבֿ (ganef, thief), from Hebrew גַנָב (ganáv).

Noun

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ganowa m pers

  1. trickster, fraudster

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “ganowa”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag