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From Macedonian додола (dodola, “rainmaker”) + -ec; variants blended with дожд (dožd, “rain”) and добар (dobar, “good, kind”).^[1]^[2]

dordolec m (plural dordolecë, definite dordoleci, definite plural dordolecët)

scarecrow
(ethnology) boy wearing fern and hellebore leaves and sprinkled with water in a ceremony to attract rain
(figurative) laughing stock

^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 214.
^ Xhelal Ylli, Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 65.

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 ===Etymology===
-From {{bor|sq|mk|додола}} ‘rainmaker’ + -''ec''; variants blended with {{m|mk|дожд}} ‘rain’ and {{m|mk|добар}} ‘good, kind’.<ref>Gunnar Svane, ''Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen'' (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 214.</ref><ref>Xhelal Ylli, ''Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen'', vol. 1: ''Lehnwörter'' (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 65.</ref>
+From {{bor|sq|mk|додола||rainmaker}} + -''ec''; variants blended with {{m|mk|дожд||rain}} and {{m|mk|добар||good, kind}}.<ref>Gunnar Svane, ''Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen'' (Åarhus: Aarhus UP, 1992), 214.</ref><ref>Xhelal Ylli, ''Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen'', vol. 1: ''Lehnwörter'' (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 65.</ref>
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