murrlan

Albanian

Alternative forms

• murlan, murrâ, murlâ — Gheg
• murrê, murrë — Tosk
• murlë, murran

Etymology

According to Orel, the form murrë ~ murrâ is borrowed with an assimilation of the initial b- from Latin boreanus (“Borean”), an adjectival formation of Latin boreās (“north wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /murˈlan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Hyphenation: murr‧lán

Noun

murrlan m (definite murrlani) (uncountable)

1. strong north wind, cold wind, gale

   Synonym: veri

Declension

Declension of murrlan

	indefinite	definite
nominative	murrlan	murrlani
accusative		murrlanin
dat./abl.	murrlani	murrlanit

Further reading

• “murrlan”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “murrlan”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “murlâ”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 300