lumbardhë

Albanian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɾðə

Etymology 1

A contraction of pëllumb e bardhë.

Alternative forms

• llumbardhë

Noun

lumbardhë f (plural lumbardha) (Arbëresh, Arvanitika)

1. female pigeon, dove

   Synonym: pëllumbeshë

   • 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 4–5:

     por lumbaarδ e Anacreontit / ronej Teemp e mocὺme

     [por llumbardhë e Anakreontit rronej Tempë e moçëme]

     but Anacreon's dove still lived in Tempe

Further reading

• “lumbardhë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “lumbardhë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek λουμπάρδα (loumpárda).

Noun

lumbardhë f (plural lumbardha) (archaic)

1. cannon, bombard

   Synonyms: bombardë, top

2. bomb

   Synonyms: bombë, predhë

Further reading

• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 8: “bombarda — lumbarξa”
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “lumb- […] -ardhë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 252b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “1) ľumbarδε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 251