llaf
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاف (lâf, “word; chat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
llaf m (plural llafe) (colloquial)
- word
- Synonym: fjalë
- chat, conversation
- (in the plural) gossip, hearsay, slander
- Synonyms: thashetheme pl, shpifje
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References edit
- “llaf,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1033b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “llaf”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 283
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “llaf”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 255a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “ľaf”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 233