lorzë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• lorëz

Etymology

Unclear. Used in a phrase flas si lorza (“to chat like a parrot”). A suffixal diminutive of an unattested *lori (“parrot lori, one of the subfamily Lorinae, now usually tribe Loriini”).

Noun

lorzë f (plural lorzë, definite lorza, definite plural lorzat)

1. parrot

   Synonym: papagall

Further reading

• “lorëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006