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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گریز (giriz).
Pronunciation
Noun
gjiriz m (plural gjirize) (colloquial)
- sewer, drain, waste pipe
- cesspool, sump
- narrow canal covered with stone slabs (e.g. in cultivation fields)
- Hypernym: kanal
References
- “gjiriz”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 620b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjiriz”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 173f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “gjiriz”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 147b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “ǵerís-zi”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 139