pisllëk

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیسلك (pislik, “dirt, mess; dirtiness”).[1] By surface analysis, pis (“dirty”) +‎ -llëk.

Noun[edit]

pisllëk m (plural pisllëqe)

  1. (colloquial) filth, uncleanliness
    Synonyms: ndyrësi, papastërti

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pisllëk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363

Further reading[edit]

  • “pisllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1488
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