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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from South Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *pokrovъ, whence Serbo-Croatian pòkrov / по̀кров.
Pronunciation
Noun
pokrovë f (dialectal)
- sheet
- Synonym: çarçaf
- shroud, winding cloth
- Synonyms: qefin, çarçaf
- arrow
- Synonym: shëgjetë
References
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “pokrovë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 202f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “pokrovë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 394a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “pokrovε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 347
- Rossi, F. (1875) “pokròv”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1020