selvi

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • sellvi — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi).

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

selvi f (plural selvi, definite selvia, definite plural selvitë)

  1. cypress
    Synonym: qiparis

Derived terms
  • selvishte

References
  • “selvi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1740b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “selvi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 417f.
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “selv-í”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 448a
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “sełvī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 381
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