hudhër

Albanian

Alternative forms

hudhrë, hudër, hurdhë

Etymology

Metathesis of archaic and dialectal hurdhë, from Proto-Albanian *skurdā, from a Mediterranean substrate word *skʰor(o)d-[1] (compare Greek σκόρδο (skórdo), Armenian սխտոր (sxtor)).[2]

Noun

hudhër f (plural hudhra, definite hudhra, definite plural hudhrat)

garlic
(figurative) bad person

Hyponyms

hudhër arinjsh (“ramsons, bear’s-garlic”)
hudhër e egër (“field garlic”)

References

Hrach Martirosyan, “The Place of Armenian in the Indo-European Language Family: the Relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, Journal of Language Relationship 10 (2013): 117.
Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “hudhër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 151

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