ćovaxano

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See also: čovaxano

Romani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Armenian ճիւաղ (čiwał),[1] ճուաղն (čuałn).

Noun[edit]

ćovaxano m

  1. (International Standard)
    1. ghost[2][3]
    2. wizard, sorcerer[2][3]
      • 2020, Viktor Elšík, “Romani Morphology”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics (in English), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 180:
        No change in word class is involved in the inflectional derivation of gender counterparts in nouns, e.g. gadž-o 'non-Romani man' ↔ gadž-i 'non-Romani woman', rakl-o 'non-Romani lad' ↔ rakl-i 'non-Romani girl', čovaxan-o 'wizzard [sic]' ↔ čovaxan-i 'witch', etc.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Baltic Romani: čovaxanò
  • Carpathian Romani: čohano
  • Sinte Romani: čovaxano
  • Vlax Romani: čoxano
  • Welsh Romani: čovexano

References[edit]

  1. ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čovexaní”, 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, pages 52b-53a
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čovexanó”, 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 53a
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “ćoxan/o, -es m. -e, -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 110a
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