πατσαβούρα

Greek

Alternative forms
  • πατσαβούρι n (patsavoúri) (less frequent)

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian spazzadura with deletion of [s] and [d>ð>v], from Italian spazzatura, spazzare, from Latin spatior, spatium.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pa.tsaˈvu.ɾa/
  • Hyphenation: πα‧τσα‧βού‧ρα

Noun

πατσαβούρα • (patsavoúra) f (plural πατσαβούρες)

  1. a swab, rag, any dirty cloth
  2. any squashed piece of cloth or paper
  3. (figuratively) stupid or promiscuous woman
  4. (figuratively) disreputable printed medium (newspaper, etc)

Declension
declension of πατσαβούρα
case     \     number singular plural
nominative πατσαβούρα • πατσαβούρες •
genitive πατσαβούρας • —
accusative πατσαβούρα • πατσαβούρες •
vocative πατσαβούρα • πατσαβούρες •
  • παλιοπατσαβούρα f (paliopatsavoúra, “dirty old swab”)
  • πατσαβουριάζω (patsavouriázo, “squash”)
  • πατσαβουρόπιτα f (patsavourópita, “kind of cake with squashed phyllo”)

Descendants
  • → Ottoman Turkish: پاچاوره‎ (paçavra), پاچاورا‎ (paçavra), پچاوره‎ (paçavra)
    • Turkish: paçavra
    • → Armenian: փաչավռա (pʿačʿavṙa), փաչառվա (pʿačʿaṙva)
    • → Bulgarian: пача́вра (pačávra)
    • → Crimean Tatar: paçavra
    • → Macedonian: пачавра (pačavra)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: pàčāvra
      Cyrillic script: па̀ча̄вра

References
  1. πατσαβούρα - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
  2. Babiniotis, Georgios (2010), “πατσαβούρα”, in Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
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