flojere

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • flojerë, floerë

Etymology

Borrowed from Aromanian fluiarã, fluearã,[1] from Latin flātūrālis (“blowing”, adj.), from flātūra (“act of blowing”).[2]

Noun

flojere f (definite flojerja)

  1. (dialectal) flute

Synonyms

Descendants
  • → Greek: φλογέρα (flogéra)

References
  1. Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 172.
  2. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 100.
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