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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قالای (kalay),[1] from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy, “tin”).
Noun
kallaj m (definite kallaji)
- tin (chemical element)
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kallaj”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 242
Further reading
- “kallaj”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006