kukuvriq

Albanian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kukuvˈɾic/
  • Rhymes: -ic
  • Hyphenation: ku‧kuv‧ríq

Noun

kukuvriq m (plural kukuvríqë, definite kukuvríqi, definite plural kukuvríqët)

  1. male owl
    Antonym: kukuvajkë (“female owl”)
  2. (mythology) revenant, zombie
    Synonyms: kukudh, lugat
  3. (Arvanitika) newly-hatched chick (chicken young)
    Synonym: zog pule
  4. incubator chick
  5. chick hatched incubated on the human body (carried on breast for 40 days)

Declension

Declension of kukuvriq
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kukuvriq kukuvriqi kukuvriqë kukuvriqët
accusative kukuvriqin
dative kukuvriqi kukuvriqit kukuvriqëve kukuvriqëve
ablative kukuvriqësh

Adverb

kukuvriq

  1. clutched, clenched
    Synonyms: rrëmujë, kruspull

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “kukuvriq”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “kukuvriq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 223
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