hudhër

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Metathesis of archaic and dialectal hurdhë, from Proto-Albanian *skurdā, from a Mediterranean substrate word *skʰor(o)d-[1] (compare Greek σκόρδο (skórdo), Armenian սխտոր (sxtor)).[2]

Noun

hudhër f (indefinite plural hudhra, definite singular hudhra, definite plural hudhrat)

  1. garlic
  2. (figuratively) bad person

Hyponyms

  • hudhër arinjsh ‘ramsons, bear’s-garlic’
  • hudhër e egër ‘field garlic’

References

  1. ↑ Hrach Martirosyan, “The Place of Armenian in the Indo-European Language Family: the Relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, Journal of Language Relationship 10 (2013): 117.
  2. ↑ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Brill: Leiden 1998), 151.
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