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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin sacculus (“small bag”), diminutive of saccus.[1] Compare also Romanian săcui, Aromanian sãculj.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃakuɫ/
- Rhymes: -kuɫ
- Hyphenation: shá‧kull
Noun
shakull m (plural shakuj, definite shakulli, definite plural shakujt)
- (chiefly northern Tosk, Kolonjë) leather bag for keeping dairy, oil, grains, etc.
- Synonyms: kacek, calik
- forge blower, bellows
- Synonym: gjyryk
- small twister, whirlwind, tornado, gale
- Synonyms: shakullinë, rrëshek
- epilepsy
- Synonyms: epilepsi, punëherë, botë
- (Arbëresh) icicle
- Synonym: ehull
- (figurative) deserted, left in the lurch
- (adjective) to be belly out, bulging, swell up
- (adverb) left gasping
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “shakull”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 1366-1367
Further reading
- “shakull”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “shakull”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shákull”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 467