llagëm
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لغم (lağım, “sewer, drain, explosive mine, underground tunnel”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
llagëm m (plural llagëme, definite llagëmi, definite plural llagëmet) (colloquial)
- underground sewage channel
- trench, underground tunnel used for protection
- Synonym: llogore
- tunnel in or under the ground used to plant explosives
- mine
- Synonym: minierë
Declension[edit]
Declension of llagëm
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “llagëm”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “llagëm”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “llagëm”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 284
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “llagëm'”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 255