Albanian

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Etymology

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Derivative of kokë.[1]

Noun

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kokërr f (plural kokrra, definite kokrra, definite plural kokrrat)

  1. small round or oval-shaped unit of a concrete thing, e.g.
    1. head (of fruit or vegetable), piece (of fruit), berry, nut, kernel
    2. chunk, granule, bead, ball, nugget
  2. small roundish object taken as an exemplar of a thing: piece, head
  3. countable individual of a class
  4. (colloquial) nub of the matter

Adjective

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kokërr

  1. same as senses 1 and 2 of the noun form

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 189.

Further reading

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  • “kokërr”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • kokërr”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006