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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوزنگی (üzengi).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
yzengji f (plural yzengji, definite yzengjia, definite plural yzengjitë)
- stirrup (of a saddle)
- Synonyms: prrashtë, struf
- (anatomy) stapes, stirrup
- Synonym: stapes
Declension
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “yzengji”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 520
Further reading
- “yzengji”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2206b
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “yzengjí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 571b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “zenǵī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 482