hudhër
Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Metathesis of archaic and dialectal hurdhë, from Proto-Albanian *skurdā, from a Mediterranean substrate word *skʰor(o)d-[1] (compare Greek σκόρδο (skórdo), Armenian սխտոր (sxtor)).[2]
Noun
[edit]hudhër f (plural hudhra, definite hudhra, definite plural hudhrat)
- garlic
- (figurative) bad person
Hyponyms
[edit]- hudhër arinjsh (“ramsons, bear’s-garlic”)
- hudhër e egër (“field garlic”)
References
[edit]- ^ Hrach Martirosyan, “The Place of Armenian in the Indo-European Language Family: the Relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, Journal of Language Relationship 10 (2013): 117.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hudhër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 151