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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوبرك (böbrek, “kidney”), from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”).
Noun
bubrek m (plural bubrekë, definite bubreku, definite plural bubrekët) (colloquial, anatomy)
- (dated) kidney
- (obsolete) liver
Declension
References
- “bubrek”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “bubrek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “bubrreq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 39
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bubrek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 89