gërdec
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Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gërdec m (plural gërdeca, definite gërdeci, definite plural gërdecat)
- (botany) bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- (medicine, uncountable) syphilis
- Synonym: sifiliz
- (medicine, southern Gheg, Tirana) lupus
- Synonym: lupus
Declension
[edit]Declension of gërdec
Adjective
[edit]gërdec
- (figurative) tough, sturdy (also in the sense of uncooked food)
- Synonym: kallkan
Further reading
[edit]- “gërdec”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “gërdec”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “gërdec”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 125