qingël

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • (belt, girth): qengël, qingje
  • (danewort): kingëlë, qëngjëlë

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin cingula (“strap, cinch”).[1]

Noun

qingël f (plural qingla, definite qingla, definite plural qinglat)

  1. saddle belt, girth
  2. (botany) danewort, dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus)

Synonyms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “qingël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 361
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