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pulëhine

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From pulë (chicken, fowl) +‎ hin (grey, ashen) +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /puləˈhine/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: pu‧lë‧hí‧ne

Noun

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pulëhine f (plural pulëhíne, definite pulëhínia, definite plural pulëhínet) (zoology)

  1. guinea fowl
  2. turkey-hen

Declension

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Further reading

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  • “pulëhine”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • pulëhine”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “pulë [] -hinde”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 407