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Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish كمر (kemer, “belt, girdle; arch, vault”), from Persian کمر (kamar, “belt, girdle”), from Middle Persian 𐫞𐫖𐫡 (qmr /kamar/, “vault”), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ceˈmeɾ/
- Rhymes: -meɾ
- Hyphenation: qe‧mér
Noun
qemer m (plural qemerë, definite qemeri, definite plural qemerët)
- archway, vault, vaulting
- something arched
- arch of foot
- waistband, belt
- Synonym: brez
- (archaic) ornamental leather or wool money belt
Derived terms
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “qemer”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 372
Further reading
- “qemer”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe (in Albanian), 1980
- “qemer”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “qemér”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 413