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- Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromtorlati“to talk noisily”
- English todayTorlak
Probably a derivative of Serbo-Croatian torlati (“to talk noisily”), though other theories exist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any of a group of Slavic inhabitants of western Bulgaria, south-eastern Serbia and northern North Macedonia, who speak a common dialect. Full definition →
Probably a derivative of Serbo-Croatian torlati (“to talk noisily”), though other theories exist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.