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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پنجره (pencere), from Persian پنجره (panjere).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /penˈd͡ʒeɾe/
- Rhymes: -eɾe
- Hyphenation: pen‧xhé‧re
Noun
penxhere f (plural penxhére, definite penxhérja, definite plural penxhéret)
- (colloquial) window
- Synonym: dritare
Derived terms
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “penxhere”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 358
Further reading
- “penxhere”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “penxhere”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “pexhere”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 362