cule

Disputed, possibilities include:

1. Akin to Slovene cula (“bundle”), Hungarian cula (“bundle”).
2. A variant of the often synonymous crule, cërrule, itself akin to Serbo-Croatian crȅvlja / цре̏вља (“shoe”), Bulgarian цървул (cǎrvul, “type of shoe”).
3. Borrowed from Greek τσόλι (tsóli), τσούλι (tsoúli, “rag”).

There may be a conflation of multiple sources.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• culë — dialectal

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sule/, (dialectal) /t͡suˈle/
• Rhymes: -ule, -e

cule f (plural cule)

1. bedding
2. bundle
3. swaddling clothes

   Synonym: shpërgënj

4. rags, tatters

   Synonyms: zhele, lecka, cërule

5. crowd, band, group of people

   Synonym: çetë

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980, page 233a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “cule”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 52b

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cule f (plural cule)

1. alternative form of cyle

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe ‎, 1980, page 233a

• IPA^(key):

cule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of culit

cule

1. inflection of culer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

cūle

1. vocative singular of cūlus

From Old Dutch *kūla, from Proto-Germanic *kūlō.

cule f or m

1. hole in the ground, dip, pit

• Dutch: kuil
• Limburgish: koel

• “cule”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cule (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

cule

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of coule

cūle f

1. alternative form of cuġele

• Hyphenation: cu‧le

cule m (plural cules)

1. alternative form of cúli