غوغا

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • ղավղա (ğavğa), գավկա (kavga), կավկա (gavga)Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From Persian غوغا (ġowġâ, ġavġâ).

Noun

غوغا • (ğavğa, kavga)

  1. dispute; clamor; quarrel; brawl; squabble

Descendants

  • Turkish: kavga
  • Aromanian: căvgắ
  • Armenian: ղաւղայ (ġawġay), խաղվա (xaġva)
  • Bulgarian: кавга́ (kavgá)
  • Greek: καβγάς (kavgás)
  • Laz: კაბღა (ǩabğa)
  • Macedonian: кавга (kavga)
  • Romanian: cavgá
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̑вга, kȃvga

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007), “358. CǍVGǍ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 101

Persian

Etymology

Reduplicative formation from غو (ġaw, clamor).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ġawġā
Dari reading? ġawġā
Iranian reading? ġowġâ
Tajik reading? ġavġo

Noun

Dari غوغا
Iranian Persian
Tajik ғавғо

غوغا • (ġowġâ)

  1. noise
  2. clamor
  3. quarrel
  4. uproar
  5. disturbance
  6. riot
  7. tumult

Synonyms

Descendants

Ushojo

Etymology

From Persian غوغا (ġowġâ).

Noun

غوغا (ğōğā)

  1. commotion and noise
  2. uproar, clamour, tumult, noise