kukuvriq

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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)

  1. male owl
    Antonym: kukuvajkë (female owl)
  2. (mythology) revenant, zombie
    Synonyms: kukudh, lugat
  3. (Arvanitika) newly-hatched chick (chicken young)
    Synonym: zog pule
  4. incubator chick
  5. chick hatched incubated on the human body (carried on breast for 40 days)

Declension

Adverb

kukuvriq

  1. 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