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ivankolev
1866 days ago
As another linguistic point, in Bulgarian 'зар' means dice
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Mediterraneo10
1866 days ago
Zar
in Balkan languages – it exists in e.g. Romanian and Albanian as well – is an Ottoman-era loanword from Turkish, which in turn borrowed it from Perso-Arabic (i.e. possibly directly from Arabic, but more likely through Persian mediation).
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