leverdis

Albanian

Alternative forms

• levërdis
• levertis
• levërtis

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (elver, “to be convenient, to be suitable”) (see Turkish elverişli).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leveɾˈdis/
• Rhymes: -is
• Hyphenation: le‧ver‧dís

Verb

leverdis (aorist leverdisi, participle leverdisur)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) to benefit, to be profitable, to be advantageous or fruitful

   Synonyms: fitim, dobi

Related terms

• leverdi
• leverdishëm
• leverdishmëri

 

Further reading

• “leverdis”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “leverdis”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “leverdí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 242