lumbardhë
Albanian
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -aɾðə
Etymology 1
editA contraction of pëllumb e bardhë.[1]
Alternative forms
editNoun
editlumbardhë f (plural lumbardha) (Arbëresh, Arvanitika)
- female pigeon, dove
- Synonym: pëllumbeshë
- 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 1, page 14, lines 4–5:
- por lumbaarδ e Anacreontit / ronej Teemp e mocὺme
- [por llumbardhë e Anakreontit rronej Tempë e moçëme]
- but Anacreon's dove still lived in Tempe
References
editFurther reading
edit- “lumbardhë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “lumbardhë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Greek λουμπάρδα (loumpárda).
Noun
editlumbardhë f (plural lumbardha) (archaic)
Further reading
edit- Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 8: “bombarda — lumbarξa”
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “lumb- […] -ardhë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 252b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “1) ľumbarδε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 251