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Albanian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek or Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spiːɾə/
- Rhymes: -iɾə
- Hyphenation: spí‧rë
Noun
spirë f (definite spíra) (uncountable)
- (medicine, veterinary medicine, originally Gheg) diarrhea
- Synonyms: diarre, purth, bark, heqje barku
- (derogatory) tasteless soup/food
- Synonym: lëngëtyrë
- (southern Gheg, Tirana) mucus of nose, snot, snivel
- Synonym: qurra
- (Tosk) band, troop
- Synonyms: grup, bandë, trupë
Further reading
- “spirë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “spirë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “spirë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 458