bubrek

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bumbrek
• bubrreq
• bubreq
• bubureke
• buburriqe
• bubarreq

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

Declension of bubrek

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

References

• “bubrek”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 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