avashllëk

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواشلق (yavaşlık). By surface analysis, avash (“slowly”) +‎ -llëk.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ək

Noun

avashllëk m (uncountable)

1. slowness, sluggishness

   Synonyms: plogështi, ngadalësi

References

• “avashllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 76a