xhubletë

• gjubletë, gjybletë
• gjupetë — Kukës

Seemingly akin to xhybe (“kind of traditional cloak”), from Ottoman Turkish, and Italian giubbetto (“small jacket”), all ultimately from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba, “jubbah”), although the great age of the dress and it being fabricated locally rather than being sold in markets, where linguistic loans are likely to occur, makes it unclear why the term would be borrowed. It is possible for an original similar-sounding term to have been altered by Turkish and/or Italian influence, acquiring, likely along other parts of the word, the initial xh-, a non-native phoneme found chiefly in relatively recent Turkish and Italian loans. Alternatively, it has also been brought forward that until the dress fell into disuse there would not necessarily have been a need for a particular word for it.

Alternatively, according to Dedvukaj, the form gjubletë is older, and a native word, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- + *melit, literally "good honey", with the *melit leading to bletë (“bee”) (see for more). Dedvukaj reconstructs a Proto-Albanian *jú-(m)blit-ā.^[1]

• Rhymes: -etə

xhubletë f (plural xhubleta)

1. A black, woolen, bell-shaped women's dress traditional of the highlands of northern Albania.

• Ardian Vehbiu (2022) “Veshje e vjetër emër i ri”, in Peizazhe të fjalës‎^[2] (in Albanian), archived from the original on 31 August 2023

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[3], 1980, page 2201a
• “xhubletë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Newmark, L. (1999) “xhubletë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[4]