jeshil
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish یشیل (yeşil), from Proto-Turkic *yāĺïl (“green”).[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editjeshil (feminine jeshile)
- (colloquial) green
- Synonym: gjelbër
Related terms
edit- jeshillëk (“greenness, verdure”)
- jeshilon
- jeshilohem (“to become green”)
References
editFurther reading
edit- “jeshil”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “jeshil”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “jesh […] íl”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 170