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Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *stьrvъ (see Serbo-Croatian strvina).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stəɾˈvinə/
- Rhymes: -inə
- Hyphenation: stër‧ví‧në
Noun
stërvinë f (plural stërvina, definite stërvina, definite plural stërvinat)
- carcass, carrion, corpse
- Synonyms: kërmë, ngordhësirë
- si sorrat në stërvinë ― like crows to a corpse
References
Further reading
- “stërvinë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “stërvinë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “stërvinë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 461