pulëhine

Albanian

Alternative forms

• pulëhinde, pulëhinë

Etymology

From pulë (“chicken, fowl”) +‎ hin (“grey, ashen”) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puləˈhine/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: pu‧lë‧hí‧ne

Noun

pulëhine f (plural pulëhíne, definite pulëhínia, definite plural pulëhínet) (zoology)

1. guinea fowl
2. turkey-hen

Declension

Declension of pulëhine

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pulëhine	pulëhinia	pulëhine	pulëhinet
accusative		pulëhinen
dative	pulëhineje	pulëhines	pulëhineve	pulëhineve
ablative			pulëhinesh

Further reading

• “pulëhine”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “pulëhine”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “pulë […] -hinde”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 407