kapardisem

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قبارمق (kabarmak, “to swell, to be puffed up, to assume airs of importance, to swagger”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kapardisem (aorist u kapardisa, participle u kapardisur)

  1. to brag, boast
  2. to strut around showing off
  3. to dress up, disguise oneself
  4. to gallivant

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kapardis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 248

Further reading

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  • “kapardisem”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 782b
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kapar […] -dísem”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 182b
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