аладжа

Bulgarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاجه‎ (“colorful”) (whence modern Turkish alaca). Akin to Macedonian ала (ala, “serpent, dragon”), Serbo-Croatian а̏ла (“spotted; dragon”) (borrowed from Ottoman Turkish).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [əɫɐˈdʒa̟]

Adjective

аладжа́ • (aladžá)

(dialectal, indeclinable) colourful, variegated
Synonyms: разноцве́тен (raznocvéten), ша́рен (šáren)

Derived terms

Аладжа́ манасти́р (rock monastery in Eastern Bulgaria)

Noun

аладжа́ • (aladžá)

(obsolete) variegated or patterned fabric
(by extension) dress or cloth made of such fabric

References

аладжа in Rečnik na bǎlgarskija ezik (Institut za bǎlgarski ezik)
Nayden Gerov (1895), “*аладжа́ (тур.)”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 1, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 7

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