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Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish آخور (ahur, “stable, shed, barn”), borrowed from Persian آخور (âxor).[1]
Noun
ahur m (plural ahure, definite ahuri, definite plural ahuret)
- ground floor of house (for livestock and their feed, wood, dairy products or tools)
- cellar
- Synonym: qilar
- (archaic) stable, barn, shed
- Synonyms: stallë, stan
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “ahur”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 32
Further reading
- “ahur”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “ahur”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006