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Albanian
Etymology
A derivative of bush (“monster”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”), originally meaning 'to be wild', structurally similar to bisht.
Noun
bushtër f (plural bushtra, definite bushtra, definite plural bushtrat)
- (mythology) dragoness; mythological creature imagined as a fire-breathing female dragon
- Synonym: kuçedër
- female dog, bitch
- Synonyms: buçe, shakë
- (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) whore, slut, tramp
- Synonyms: kurvë, lavire, buçe, horrë
- (zoology) European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)
- Synonyms: dosëz, arç, bugjek
Declension
Adjective
bushtër
- (Arvanitika) wild
References
- “bushtër”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “bushtër”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “bushtër”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 44