pallë

See also: palle, Palle, pallé, and pâlle

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɫə/
  • Rhymes: -aɫə
  • Hyphenation: pá‧llë

Etymology 1

From Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).[1]

Noun

pallë f (plural pálla, definite pálla, definite plural pállat)

  1. (archaic) sword
    Synonyms: shpatë, kordhë
  2. pole, club, bat, washing stick
    Synonyms: kopan, lasë
  3. plowshare
    Synonyms: plor, umb
  4. wooden shovel used to thresh grain; flail
  5. (colloquial) spoke (on a carriage wheel)
    Synonym: rreze
  6. (colloquial) pole, door bolt (to close doors)
    Synonyms: shul, lloz
  7. (euphemistic) penis
Declension
Declension of pallë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pallë palla palla pallat
accusative pallën
dative palle pallës pallave pallave
ablative pallash

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek παῦλα (paûla, “rest, pause”).[2]

Noun

pallë f

  1. (uninflected) lounge, idle

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pallë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pallë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “pallë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “pallë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 344
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