bubrek

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • bumbrek
  • bubrreq
  • bubreq
  • bubureke
  • buburriqe
  • bubarreq

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوبرك (böbrek, “kidney”), from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”).

Noun

bubrek m (plural bubrekë, definite bubreku, definite plural bubrekët) (colloquial, anatomy)

  1. (dated) kidney
  2. (obsolete) liver

Declension

Declension of bubrek
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bubrek bubreku bubrekë bubrekët
accusative bubrekun
dative bubreku bubrekut bubrekëve bubrekëve
ablative bubrekësh

References

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “bubrek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “bubrreq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 39
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bubrek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 89
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