kumri

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قمری (kumru), from Old Anatolian Turkish, from Arabic قُمْرِيّ (qumriyy, “laughing dove”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kumˈɾi/
  • Rhymes: -ɾi
  • Hyphenation: kum‧rí

Noun

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kumri f (plural kumrí, definite kumría, definite plural kumrítë)

  1. (zoology) Eurasian collared dove, ringdove
    Synonyms: turtull, guguçe, gugash
  2. (figurative, endearing) beautiful maiden
    Synonym: pëllumbeshë — endearing

References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kumri”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 273

Further reading

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  • “kumri”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “kumri”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kumrí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 225
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