aferim

See also: afërim

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آفرم‎ (aferim).[1][2]

Interjection

aferím

  1. (colloquial) bravo!
    Synonyms: piróll, brávo

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891), “afεrím”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 3
  2. Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “aferim”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 30

Further reading
  • Jungg, G. (1895), “aferìm”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 2
  • Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (in Latin), page 206: “euge — afferim”
  • “aferim”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980

Galician

Verb

aferim

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of aferir

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آفرم‎ (âferim), from Persian آفرین‎ (âfarin).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.feˈrim/

Interjection

aferim

  1. bravo! (often with an ironic meaning)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آفرم‎ (âferim), from Persian آفرین‎ (âfarin).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /afěrim/
  • Hyphenation: a‧fe‧rim

Interjection

afèrim (Cyrillic spelling афѐрим)

  1. (regional, Bosnia) bravo!
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