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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قمری (kumru), from Old Anatolian Turkish, from Arabic قُمْرِيّ (qumriyy, “laughing dove”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kumˈɾi/
- Rhymes: -ɾi
- Hyphenation: kum‧rí
Noun
kumri f (plural kumrí, definite kumría, definite plural kumrítë)
- (zoology) Eurasian collared dove, ringdove
- Synonyms: turtull, guguçe, gugash
- (figurative, endearing) beautiful maiden
- Synonym: pëllumbeshë — endearing
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kumri”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 273
Further reading
- “kumri”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “kumri”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “kumrí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 225