qelibar

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • qehlibar
  • qehribar
  • qilebar

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كهربار (kehribar, kehrübar), vulgar form of كهربا (kehrüba), borrowed from Persian کهربا (kahrobâ).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /celiˈbaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -baɾ
  • Hyphenation: qe‧li‧bár

Noun

qelibar m (definite qelibari) (uncountable)

  1. amber, succin, yellow amber
  2. (adjective) clear, clean
    Synonyms: i kulluar, i pastër, i kthjellët
  3. (adjective, figurative) clean, virtuous (in a moral sense)

Derived terms

  • qelibartë

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “qelibar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 371

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “qelibar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “qelibar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 413
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