tellall

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دلال (dellal), تلال (tellal).

Pronunciation

Noun

tellall m (plural tellallë)

  1. (archaic) town crier, informer, announcer
    Synonyms: kasnec, lajmëtar
  2. (archaic) auctioneer, broker
  3. (derogatory) propagandist, agitator, drumbeater
    Synonym: kasnec

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “tełáł”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 426
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “tellall”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1455
  3. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “tellall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 471

Further reading

  • “tellall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980