qingël

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • (belt, girth): qengël, qingje
  • (danewort): kingëlë, qëngjëlë

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin cingula (“strap, cinch”).[1]

Noun

qingël f (plural qingla, definite qingla, definite plural qinglat)

  1. saddle belt, girth
  2. (botany) danewort, dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “qingël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 361
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