palldëm

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاردم (pardüm), from Persian پاردم (pârdum, crupper).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paɫˈdəm/
  • Rhymes: -əm
  • Hyphenation: pall‧dëm

Noun

palldëm m (plural palldëme, definite palldëmi, definite plural palldëmet)

  1. saddle girth
    Synonyms: nënbishte, qingël, vithatore, praqe, stragalë

Declension

Declension of palldëm
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative palldëm palldëmi palldëme palldëmet
accusative palldëmin
dative palldëmi palldëmit palldëmeve palldëmeve
ablative palldëmesh

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “palldëm”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 520

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • palldëm”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006