shlivovicë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• slivovicë

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian šljȉvovica／шљи̏вовица, while the variant slivovicë is borrowed from Macedonian сливовица (slivovica).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃlivoˈvit͡sə/
• Rhymes: -it͡sə

Noun

shlivovicë f (dialectal)

1. slivovitz, plum brandy

   Synonym: shlivë

   Hypernym: raki

Derived terms

• shlivë

 

References

• “šljivovica”, in Rečnik – Fjalor, 2019
• “сливовица” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu
• Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “shlivë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎^[1], volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 257