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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آرسلان (arslan).
Pronunciation
Noun
asllan m (plural asllanë) (archaic)
- lion
- Synonym: luan
References
- “asllán,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 62a
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “asllan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 46
- Meyer, G. (1891) “aslán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 18