puçërr

Albanian

Etymology

From an expressive variant in -rr of Proto-Albanian *putso, from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”); compare Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Latin pus (“discharge from a sore”), Ancient Greek πύθω (púthō, “to rot”). Doublet of fëlliq.

Noun

puçërr f (plural puçrra, definite puçrra, definite plural puçrrat)

  1. pimple

Declension

Declension of puçërr
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative puçërr puçrra puçrra puçrrat
accusative puçrrën
dative puçrre puçrrës puçrrave puçrrave
ablative puçrrash

Further reading

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