patëllxhan

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاتلجان (patlıcan), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /patəɫˈd͡ʒan/
  • Rhymes: -d͡ʒan
  • Hyphenation: pa‧tëll‧xhán

Noun

patëllxhan m (plural patëllxhána, definite patëllxháni, definite plural patëllxhánat)

  1. eggplant, aubergine, brinjal
    Synonyms: melixhane, koqeve
  2. (colloquial) variety of fig shaped like and eggplant
    Synonym: fik patëllxhanës
  3. (dialectal, Kosovo) tomato
    Synonym: domate

References

  1. ^ Fjalor i gjuhës sërbishte ose kroatishte dhe i shqipes
  2. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “patëllxhan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 355

Further reading

  • “patëllxhan”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “patëllxhan”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “patlixhan, patllixhan”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 356
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