litrar

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Calabro-Sicilian litraru[1] / Calabro-Neapolitan [Term?] (/⁠lətrǣrə⁠/, “lazy, idler, good-for-nothing”).[2]

Noun

litrar m (plural litrarë, definite litrari) (Calabria)

  1. lazy person, layabout, idler[2]
    Synonyms: dembel, përtac
  2. glutton[1]
    Synonyms: grykës, llupës, lloftar

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891) “ľitrár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 247
  2. AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 719: “pigro” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Swedish

Noun

litrar

  1. indefinite plural of liter
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