لافزن

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

لافزان (lafazan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (lāfzen, “boaster, braggart”), from (lāf).

Noun

لافزن • (lafazan)

windbag, braggart
Synonym: كوزه (geveze)

Related terms

لاف (laf)

Descendants

Turkish: lafazan
→ Albanian: llafazan
→ Armenian: լաֆազան (lafazan), լափազան (lapʻazan)
→ Aromanian: lafãzan
→ Bulgarian: лафаза́н (lafazán)
→ Georgian: ლაფაზანაი (lapazanai) — Chveneburi
→ Greek: λαφαζάνης (lafazánis)
→ Ladino: lafazán
→ Romanian: lafazan

References

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lafazan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2925
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لافزن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1072
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لافزن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1619–1920

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