shishman

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیشمان (şişman).[1][2][3]

Noun

shishman m (plural shishmanë) (archaic)

  1. very fat person, fatso
    Synonyms: trashaman, shishko

Adjective

shishman (feminine shishmane) (archaic)

  1. very fat, obese
    Synonyms: i shëndoshë, i trashë

References

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “šišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 406
  2. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017) “shishman”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
  3. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 450

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1844
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