xhubletë

Albanian

grua me xhubletë ― woman with a xhubleta

Etymology

Seemingly akin to xhybe (“kind of traditional cloak”), from Ottoman Turkish, and Italian giubbetto (“small jacket”), all ultimately from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba, “jubbah”), although the great age of the dress and it being fabricated locally rather than being sold in markets, where linguistic loans are likely to occur, makes it unclear why the term would be borrowed. It is possible for an original similar-sounding term to have been altered by Turkish and/or Italian influence, acquiring, likely along other parts of the word, the initial xh-, a non-native phoneme found chiefly in relatively recent Turkish and Italian loans. Alternatively, it has also been brought forward that until the dress fell into disuse there would not necessarily have been a need for a particular word for it.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -etə

Noun

xhubletë f (plural xhubleta)

1. A black, woolen, bell-shaped women's dress traditional of the highlands of northern Albania.

Declension

Declension of xhubletë

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	xhubletë	xhubleta	xhubleta	xhubletat
accusative			xhubletën
dative	xhublete	xhubletave	xhubletës	xhubletavet
ablative		xhubletash

References

• “xhubletë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2201a
• Ardian Vehbiu (2022) “Veshje e vjetër emër i ri”, in Peizazhe të fjalës‎^[2] (in Albanian), archived from the original on 2023-08-31

Further reading

• xhubleta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• xhubleta on the Albanian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sq