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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاهوری (lâhuri). The masculine was likely mediated by Greek λαχούρι (lachoúri).
Pronunciation
Noun
lahur m (plural lahurë, definite lahuri, definite plural lahurët)
- A kind of fabric, usually coloured, used for women's clothing.
- A large headscarf, kerchief, shawl, traditionally made of silk, with fringes.
- Synonyms: shami, tullupan
- A kind of fringed towel.
- Synonym: peshqir
- (dialectal) scarf, neckerchief
- Synonym: shall
- (dialectal) handkerchief
- Synonyms: shami, mafër
References
- “lahúr,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “lahur”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 277
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “lahúr”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 233b