qelibar

Albanian

Alternative forms

• qehlibar
• qehribar
• qilebar

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كهربار (kehribar, kehrübar), vulgar form of كهربا (kehrüba), borrowed from Persian کهربا (kahrobâ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /celiˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes: -baɾ
• Hyphenation: qe‧li‧bár

Noun

qelibar m (definite qelibari) (uncountable)

1. amber, succin, yellow amber
2. (adjective) clear, clean

   Synonyms: i kulluar, i pastër, i kthjellët

3. (adjective, figurative) clean, virtuous (in a moral sense)

Derived terms

• qelibartë

Further reading

• “qelibar”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “qelibar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “qelibar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 413