bunar

• bonar — dialectal

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar).

• IPA^(key): /buˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

bunar m (plural bunarë)

1. well

   Synonym: pus

2. spring, fountain

   Synonyms: krua, burim

3. pond, pond

   Synonyms: hurdhë, pellg

4. (dialectal) tank, cistern

• “bunar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “bunár,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 197b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bunar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 92
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “bunar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 42b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “bunár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 53
• Jungg, G. (1895) “bunaar”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 13b

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

bunar m (plural bunari)

1. (Banat, Oltenia) well

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

• IPA^(key): /bǔnaːr/
• Hyphenation: bu‧nar

bùnār m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀на̄р)

1. well (hole sunk into the ground)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunar.