verdhë

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin virdis, from Latin viridis (“green”). Sense 4 is a semantic loan from Italian giallo (literally “yellow”). Sense 2 is shared with Romanian verde (literally “green”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈveɾðə/
• Rhymes: -eɾðə

i verdhë

1. yellow
2. pale

   Synonym: i zbehtë

   i verdhë në fytyrë ― with a pale face (literally, “pale in the face”)

3. (colloquial) yellow (of race), mongoloid

   raca e verdhë ― yellow race

4. involving crimes and detective work (of a story)

   roman i verdhë ― crime novel, mystery novel

5. (archaic or dialectal) green, fresh-leaves-coloured

   Synonym: i gjelbër

6. (archaic) gold, golden (of coins)

   Synonym: i artë

të verdhë n (plural të verdhët)

1. jaundice

   Synonym: verdhezë

2. faint, swoon

   Synonym: të fikët

• “vérdhë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 2132f.
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “verdhë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 550b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “verθ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 446
• Jungg, G. (1895) “verξ”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 170b
• Rossi, F. (1875) “vèrξ”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1323b
• Miklosich, Franz (1871) “viridis”, in Albanische Forschungen II. Die romanischen Elemente im Albanischen (in German), Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 71
• Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 184: “viridis — verξe”