avash-avash

== Albanian == === Alternative forms === avash avash === Etymology === Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یواش یواش (yavaş yavaş). By surface analysis, reduplication of avash (“slowly”). === Adverb === avash-avash (colloquial) little by little, very slowly, gradually Synonym: dalëngadalë === References === FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 76a Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “javash”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 227