bundër

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • bundërr

Etymology

With diminutive suffix -ërr, from Serbo-Croatian бу̑нда / bȗnda (“fur; fur coat”).[1][2]

Noun

bundër f (plural bundra, definite bundra, definite plural bundrat)

  1. polecat (Mustela putorius)
    Synonym: qelbës

References
  1. Ylli, Xhelal (1997) Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎, volume I. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 44
  2. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Åarhus, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 1992), 142.
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