llaf

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • laf m, llafe, lafe f (archaic or dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاف‎ (lâf, “word; chat”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɫaf/
  • Rhymes: -af

Noun

llaf m (plural llafe) (colloquial)

  1. word
    Synonym: fjalë
  2. chat, conversation
    Synonyms: muhabet, kuvend, bisedë, kuvendim
  3. (in the plural) gossip, hearsay, slander
    Synonyms: thashetheme pl, shpifje

Derived terms
  • llafator
  • llafemadh
  • llafepakë
  • llafeshumë
  • llafje
  • llafoj
  • llafos

References
  • “llaf,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1033b
  • Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “llaf”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 283
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “llaf”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 255a
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “ľaf”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 233
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