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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیشمان (şişman).[1][2][3]
Noun
shishman m (plural shishmanë) (archaic)
- very fat person, fatso
- Synonyms: trashaman, shishko
Adjective
shishman (feminine shishmane) (archaic)
- very fat, obese
- Synonyms: i shëndoshë, i trashë
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “šišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 406
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “shishman”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 450
Further reading
- “shishman”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1844