Gjilan

• Ghilan, Gilan (obsolete)

Borrowed from Albanian Gjilan, see there for more.

Gjilan

1. The third largest city in Kosovo, and the seat of its eponymous district and municipality.
2. A district of Kosovo.
3. A municipality of Kosovo.

• Gnjilane

• jingal

• Gilan — dated

Attested as Church Slavonic Гнилꙗне (Gniljane) (1405), and later by Western travellers as Italian Ghilan (1826), French Guilan (1840), German Gilan ~ Gnilan (1868). Most likely a borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Gnjilane / Гњилане, possibly by mediation of Ottoman Turkish. The cluster /ɡɲ/ was simplified and later reborrowed into the lect of the Serbs coinhabiting the city. See the Serbo-Croatian entry for further explanation.

By Albanian sources traditionally considered a corruption of the surname of the Gjinolli family, in its non-Turkified form Gjinaj, who ruled over the area in the 18th century. This must be discarded due to historical evidence.

• IPA^(key): /ɟiˈlan/
• Rhymes: -an

Gjilan m (definite Gjilani)

1. Gjilan (a city, municipality, and district of Kosovo)

• Gjilani on the Albanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sq

• Ghilan, Guilan (obsolete)

Borrowed from Albanian Gjilan.

Gjilan ?

1. Gjilan (a city, municipality, and district of Kosovo)

• Gjilan on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• Gilan, Ghilan (obsolete)

Borrowed from Albanian Gjilan.

Gjilan ?

1. Gjilan (a city, municipality, and district of Kosovo)

• Gjilan on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• Ghilan, Ghilane (obsolete)

Borrowed from Albanian Gjilan.

Gjilan f

1. Gjilan (a city, municipality, and district of Kosovo)
   • 2003, Claudio Camarca, Migranti verso una terra chiamata Italia, Rizzoli, →ISBN, page 85:

     Lui ha sorriso, mandato giù un sorso di caffè, domandato cosa ci facessi a Gjilan.

     He smiled, took a sip of coffee, and asked what I was doing in Gjilan.

• Gjilan on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it