Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian глогина (glogina), Macedonian глогинка (gloginka), Serbo-Croatian glòginjeгло̀гиње, contaminated by kollo- and Gjon (John).

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Noun

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kollogjonë f

  1. hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
    Synonym: murriz
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References

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  • “kollogjón/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 851b