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Albanian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kukuvˈɾic/
- Rhymes: -ic
- Hyphenation: ku‧kuv‧ríq
Noun
kukuvriq m (plural kukuvríqë, definite kukuvríqi, definite plural kukuvríqët)
- male owl
- Antonym: kukuvajkë (“female owl”)
- (mythology) revenant, zombie
- Synonyms: kukudh, lugat
- (Arvanitika) newly-hatched chick (chicken young)
- Synonym: zog pule
- incubator chick
- chick hatched incubated on the human body (carried on breast for 40 days)
Declension
Adverb
kukuvriq
- clutched, clenched
- Synonyms: rrëmujë, kruspull
Further reading
- “kukuvriq”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “kukuvriq”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “kukuvriq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 223