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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گول (göl).
Pronunciation
Noun
gjol m (plural gjole) (colloquial)
- lake; swamp
- Synonyms: liqen; kënetë
- think mud, mire
- Synonyms: baltë, llucë
Derived terms
References
- “gjol,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 624b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjol”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 174f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “gjol”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 148b