lahutë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • llahutë — dialectal
  • lavutë — Calabria

Etymology

Compare Greek λαούτο (laoúto), Romanian lăută, Aromanian lãutã, Macedonian лаута (lauta), Bulgarian лау́та (laúta), Venetian lauto, Ottoman Turkish لاؤطه (laʼuta).

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /laˈhutə/
  • Rhymes: -utə

Noun

lahutë f (plural lahuta)

  1. gusle

Derived terms

References
  • “lahút/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 937a
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “lahut-ar […] ë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 233b

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