lahur

Albanian

Alternative forms

• lahurí f

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاهوری (lâhuri). The masculine was likely mediated by Greek λαχούρι (lachoúri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈhuɾ/
• Rhymes: -uɾ

Noun

lahur m (plural lahurë, definite lahuri, definite plural lahurët)

1. A kind of fabric, usually coloured, used for women's clothing.
2. A large headscarf, kerchief, shawl, traditionally made of silk, with fringes.

   Synonyms: shami, tullupan

3. A kind of fringed towel.

   Synonym: peshqir

4. (dialectal) scarf, neckerchief

   Synonym: shall

5. (dialectal) handkerchief

   Synonyms: shami, mafër

References

• “lahúr,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “lahur”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 277
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lahúr”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 233b