Etymology

Torlak

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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 →

Serbo-Croatian torlati
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The story

  1. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromtorlati“to talk noisily”
  2. English todayTorlak

Probably a derivative of Serbo-Croatian torlati (“to talk noisily”), though other theories exist.

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