tellall
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دلال (dellal), تلال (tellal).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tellall m (plural tellallë)
- (archaic) town crier, informer, announcer
- (archaic) auctioneer, broker
- (derogatory) propagandist, agitator, drumbeater
- Synonym: kasnec
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “tełáł”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 426
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “tellall”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1455
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “tellall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 471
Further reading edit
- “tellall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980