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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), and modern Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance"). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
zabel f (plural zabele, definite zabeli, definite plural zabelet)
- grove
Synonyms
References
- ^ Omari, Anila (2012), "zabel", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 320-321