kullumbri

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derivative of *kullumbë borrowed from Latin columba (“dove, pigeon”). The fruit is called after the bird because of its bluish colour, cf. Romanian porumbă (“sloe”) after palumbes (“dove”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuɫumbɾˈi/

Noun

kullumbri f (plural kullumbri, definite kullumbria, definite plural kullumbritë)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) turtle dove, Eurasian collared dove
    Synonyms: turtull, guguçe
  2. (botany) blackthorn; sloe

Declension

Declension of kullumbri
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kullumbri kollumbria kollumbria kollumbriat
accusative kullumbrin
dative kollumbrie kullumbris kollumbriave kollumbriave
ablative kollumbriash

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Bernard, Roger (1961) Ку́мбула (ку́мбола) «prunelle» et «prune». Revue des Etudes Slaves 39:1, p. 42.[[1]]
  2. ^ Oryol, Vladimir E. (1998), “kullumbri”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 203

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980
  • “kullumbri”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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