kumsallë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قومسال (kumsal).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɫə

Noun

kumsallë f (archaic)

1. shore, sandbank

   Synonyms: breg, ranishtë

Related terms

• kum

 

References

• Meyer, G. (1891) “kum”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 213
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*kumsallë”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 273