Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مشهور (meşhur).[1]

Adjective edit

meshhur

  1. (chiefly bejtexhinj poetry) famous
    Synonym: famshëm
    • 1724, Muçi Zade, Imzot, mos më lerë pa kahve, line 18:
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      [për Muhamednë q'është meshhur]
      by Muhammad, fame be to him, []
      (literally, “by Muhammad, who is famous”)

References edit

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*shhur”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 448