sallgam

Albanian

Alternative forms

• sallgëm

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish صالقم (salkım, “bunch of grapes or flowers”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɫˈɡam/

Noun

sallgám m (plural sallgame, definite sallgami, definite plural sallgamet)

1. (botany, dialectal) black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

   Synonyms: akacie, bagrem

Declension

Declension of sallgam

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sallgam	sallgami	sallgame	sallgamet
accusative		sallgamin
dative	sallgami	sallgamit	sallgameve	sallgameve
ablative			sallgamesh

Further reading

• “sallgam”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006