jerevi
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Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (yer evi), from یر (yer, “ground”) + او (ev, “house”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jerevi f (plural jerevi, definite jerevia)
- room on the ground floor
- ground-level hut or room for cattle or provisions
- (dialectal) prison
- Synonym: burg
References
[edit]- “jerevi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 742b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “jerevi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 229f.
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “jereví”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 169b