hirrë

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ksirā, from Proto-Indo-European *ksiHr-neh₂, from *ksiHróm (“milk”) (compare Persian شیر‎ (šir), Sinhalese කිරි (kiri)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hi.rə/

Noun

hirrë f (definite singular hirra)

  1. whey

Derived terms
  • hirraq
  • hirrët
  • hirrzë

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 149.
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