shishman
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیشمان (şişman).[1][2][3]
Noun
[edit]shishman m (plural shishmanë) (archaic)
Adjective
[edit]shishman (feminine shishmane) (archaic)
- very fat, obese
- Synonyms: i shëndoshë, i trashë
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “šišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 406
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “shishman”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 450
Further reading
[edit]- “shishman”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1844