cravache
See also: cravaché
French
Alternative forms
- courbache (directly from Ottoman, of somewhat independent meaning)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Karbatsche, from Polish karbacz, karabacz, korbacz, from Ottoman Turkish قرباچ (kırbaç).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁa.vaʃ/
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Descendants
- → Romanian: cravașă
Verb
cravache
- inflection of cravacher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cravache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French cravache. Doublet of cravascia (semi-learned borrowing from the same term), and curbascio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kraˈvaʃ/*
- Rhymes: -aʃ
- Hyphenation: cra‧vàche
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