bubrek

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • bumbrek
  • bubrreq
  • bubreq
  • bubureke
  • buburriqe
  • bubarreq

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوبرك (böbrek, “kidney”), from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”).

Noun

bubrek m (plural bubrekë, definite bubreku, definite plural bubrekët) (colloquial, anatomy)

  1. (dated) kidney
  2. (obsolete) liver

Declension
Declension of bubrek
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative bubrek bubrekë bubreku bubrekët
accusative bubrekun
dative bubreku bubrekëve bubrekut bubrekëvet
ablative bubrekësh

References
  • “bubrek”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “bubrek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “bubrreq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 39
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bubrek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 89
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