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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیسلك (pislik, “dirt, mess; dirtiness”).[1] By surface analysis, pis (“dirty”) + -llëk.
Noun
pisllëk m (plural pisllëqe)
- (colloquial) filth, uncleanliness
- Synonyms: ndyrësi, papastërti
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pisllëk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363
Further reading
- “pisllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1488