Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیسلك (pislik, dirt, mess; dirtiness).[1] By surface analysis, pis (dirty) +‎ -llëk.

Noun edit

pisllëk m (plural pisllëqe)

  1. (colloquial) filth, uncleanliness
    Synonyms: ndyrësi, papastërti

References edit

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pisllëk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363

Further reading edit

  • “pisllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1488