kërmë

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of kurm (cf. dëllinjë vs. dullinjë, mëllenjë vs. mullenjë etc.). Others have proposed a South Slavic origin; compare Serbo-Croatian kŕma (“forage, fodder”), Bulgarian кърма (kǎrma, “forage, fodder; carrion”).[1][2]

Noun

kërmë f (plural kërma, definite kërma, definite plural kërmat)

  1. carrion
  2. (colloquial) carcass
  3. (derogatory) walking corpse

Synonyms
  • cofëtinë, mërshë, mëshkenjë, ngordhësirë, stërvinë

References
  1. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 132.
  2. Xhelal Ylli, Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 113.
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