Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سنبل (sümbül, hyacinth), itself borrowed from Classical Persian سنبل (sunbul), ultimately from Arabic سُنْبُل (sunbul).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

zymbyl m (plural zymbyla, definite zymbyli, definite plural zymbylat)

  1. (botany) hyacinth
  2. (figurative) beautiful and desirable

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “zymbyl”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 532