hallvë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حلوا, from Arabic حَلْوَى (ḥalwā) or حَلْوَاء (ḥalwāʔ).[1]

Noun

hallvë f

  1. halva

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hallvë”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 186
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