avlami

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vlami

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian vëllam.

Noun

avlami (plural avlameanj)

1. blood brother

   Synonym: fãrtat

   • [1824, F.-C.-H.-L. Poqueville, Histoire de la régénération de la Grèce, volume 4 (in French), Paris: Firmin Didot, page 205:

     […] ils demandent à s’unir par le liens de la fraternité, en se déclarant Vlamia.

     […] they want to unite by the bonds of brotherhood, and declare themselves vlamia.]

   • [idem, footnote:

     J’ignore d’où vient le mot Vlam et Vlamia au pluriel […]

     I do not know where the word vlam, and vlamia in the plural, comes from.]

References

• Cunia, Tiberius (2010) “avlami”, in Dictsiunar a Limbãljei Armãneascã (in Aromanian), Constanța: Editura Cartea Aromãnã, page 165a
• Papahagi, T. (1974) “avlámĭ”, in Dicționarul dialectului aromân, general și etimologic, 2nd edition (overall work in Romanian and French), Bucharest, page 245