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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi).
Pronunciation
Noun
selvi f (plural selvi, definite selvia, definite plural selvitë)
- cypress
- Synonym: qiparis
Derived terms
References
- “selvi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1740b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “selvi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 417f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “selv-í”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 448a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “sełvī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 381