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Albanian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃcitəs/
- Rhymes: -itəs
- Hyphenation: shqí‧tës
Noun
shqitëz f (plural shqitëza, definite shqitëza, definite plural shqitëzat)
- (Arvanitika, Arbëresh) swan
- Synonym: mjellmë
- (archaic) common pochard (Aythya ferina)
- Synonym: zhytër
Further reading
- “shqitëz”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “shqitëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shqitë […] z”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 496