lahutë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• llahutë — dialectal
• lavutë — Calabria

Etymology

Compare Greek λαούτο (laoúto), Romanian lăută, Aromanian lãutã, Macedonian лаута (lauta), Bulgarian лау́та (laúta), Venetan lauto, Ottoman Turkish لاؤطه (laʼuta), English lute.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈhutə/
• Rhymes: -utə

Noun

lahútë f (plural lahuta)

1. gusle

Declension

Declension of lahutë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lahutë	lahuta	lahuta	lahutat
accusative		lahutën
dative	lahute	lahutës	lahutave	lahutave
ablative			lahutash

Derived terms

• lahutar

References

• “lahút/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 937a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lahut-ar […] ë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 233b