pulëhine

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From pulë (“chicken, fowl”) +‎ hin (“grey, ashen”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /puləˈhine/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: pu‧lë‧hí‧ne

Noun

pulëhine f (plural pulëhíne, definite pulëhínia, definite plural pulëhínet) (zoology)

  1. guinea fowl
  2. turkey-hen

Declension

Declension of pulëhine
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pulëhine pulëhinia pulëhine pulëhinet
accusative pulëhinen
dative pulëhineje pulëhines pulëhineve pulëhineve
ablative pulëhinesh

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
  • “pulëhine”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “pulë […] -hinde”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 407
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