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leverdis

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (elver, “to be convenient, to be suitable”) (see Turkish elverişli).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /leveɾˈdis/
  • Rhymes: -is
  • Hyphenation: le‧ver‧dís

Verb

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leverdis (aorist leverdisi, participle leverdisur)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) to benefit, to be profitable, to be advantageous or fruitful
    Synonyms: fitim, dobi
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References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “leverdis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 281

Further reading

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  • “leverdis”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “leverdis”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “leverdí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 242
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