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Acehnese
Noun
lugat
- dialect
Albanian
Etymology
According to Orel borrowed from Vulgar Latin *lupus peccatus (“false wolf”), though with difficult semantics.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
lugat m (plural lugétër, definite lugáti, definite plural lugétërit)
- (mythology) revenant: a spiteful person who rises from the grave after death and terrorizes people, zombie, vampire
- Synonyms: kukudh, vampir, vurkollak
- (mythology) werewolf
- Synonyms: njeri ujk, vurkollak
- (figurative, derogatory) a very ugly or spiteful person
References
Further reading
- “lugat”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “lugat”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “lugát”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 251