Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Aromanian fluiarã, fluearã,[1] from Latin flātūrālis (blowing, adj.), from flātūra (act of blowing).[2]

Noun edit

flojere f (definite flojerja)

  1. (dialectal) flute

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

  • Greek: φλογέρα (flogéra)

References edit

  1. ^ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 172.
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 100.