lugat
Acehnese
editNoun
editlugat
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editAccording to Orel borrowed from Vulgar Latin *lupus peccatus (“false wolf”), though with difficult semantics.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlugat m (plural lugétër, definite lugáti, definite plural lugétërit)
- (mythology) revenant: a spiteful person who rises from the grave after death and terrorizes people, zombie, vampire
- (mythology) werewolf
- (figurative, derogatory) a very ugly or spiteful person
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lugat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 233
Further reading
edit- “lugat”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “lugat”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “lugát”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 251