puçërr

Albanian

Etymology

From an expressive variant in -rr of Proto-Albanian *putso, from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”); compare Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Latin pus (“discharge from a sore”), Ancient Greek πύθω (púthō, “to rot”). Doublet of fëlliq.

Noun

puçërr f (plural puçrra, definite puçrra, definite plural puçrrat)

1. pimple

Declension

Declension of puçërr

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	puçërr	puçrra	puçrra	puçrrat
accusative		puçrrën
dative	puçrre	puçrrës	puçrrave	puçrrave
ablative			puçrrash

Further reading

• “puçërr”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980