llokum
Albanian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لوقوم (lokum).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
llokum m (plural llokume)
- locoum, Turkish delight
- small part of a weak explosive
Adjective edit
llokum
References edit
- “llokum”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1039b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “llokum”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 285
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “llokúm”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 257a