pisllëk

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیسلك (pislik, “dirt, mess; dirtiness”).[1] By surface analysis, pis (“dirty”) +‎ -llëk.

Noun

pisllëk m (plural pisllëqe)

  1. (colloquial) filth, uncleanliness
    Synonyms: ndyrësi, papastërti

References
  1. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pisllëk”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363

Further reading
  • “pisllëk”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1488
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