gjyle

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گوله (gülle), from Persian گوله (gūle, “cannonball, heavy and round object”).[1]

Noun

gjyle f

  1. cannonball

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjyle”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 176

Further reading

  • “gjyle”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “gjyle”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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