gjyljak

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كل یاغی (gül yağı).[1]

Noun

gjyljak

  1. (dated) attar of roses

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjyljak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 176

Further reading

  • Newmark, L. (1999) “gjyljak”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary