fildish

Albanian

Alternative forms

• fildiç — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فیل دیشی (fil dişi).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iʃ

Noun

fildish m (uncountable)

1. ivory
2. elephant's tusk

   Hypernym: dhëmb

Derived terms

• i fildishtë

 

Related terms

• fil

 

References

• “fildish”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 470a
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “fildish”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 159
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “fildish”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 107a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “fiľ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 104f.
• Jungg, G. (1895) “fildisc”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 30