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bubrek

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوبرك (böbrek, kidney), from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (kidney).

Noun

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bubrek m (plural bubrekë, definite bubreku, definite plural bubrekët) (colloquial, anatomy)

  1. (dated) kidney
  2. (obsolete) liver

Declension

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Declension of bubrek
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bubrek bubreku bubrekë bubrekët
accusative bubrekun
dative bubreku bubrekut bubrekëve bubrekëve
ablative bubrekësh

References

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  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • bubrek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “bubrreq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 39
  • Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “bubrek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 89