Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیشمان (şişman).[1][2][3]

Noun edit

shishman m (plural shishmanë) (archaic)

  1. very fat person, fatso
    Synonyms: trashaman, shishko

Adjective edit

shishman (feminine shishmane) (archaic)

  1. very fat, obese
    Synonyms: i shëndoshë, i trashë

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “šišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 406
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “shishman”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
  3. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 450

Further reading edit

  • “shishman”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1844