jeshil
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish یشیل (yeşil), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
jeshil (feminine jeshile)
- (colloquial) green
- Synonym: gjelbër
Related terms[edit]
- jeshillëk (“greenness, verdure”)
- jeshilon
- jeshilohem (“to become green”)
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “jeshil”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “jeshil”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “jesh […] íl”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 170