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Albanian
Etymology
Either from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bear, lead across, penetrate”) (cf. shpoj and shporr), or a loanword from Gothic, through an unattested Vulgar Latin *spora.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
shpor m (plural shpore, definite shpori, definite plural shporet)
- (uncountable, anatomy) breastbone, keel, furcula
- Synonym: heqës
- (uncountable) saddle
- Synonym: samar
- spur
- Synonym: mamuz
- (botany) nectary
- furrow
- Synonym: hulli
- ridge, mound, bed, plot
- Synonyms: vllajë, lehe
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References
Further reading
- “shpor”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “shpor”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shpor”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 493