flojere

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Albanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

flojere f (definite flojerja)

  1. (dialectal) flute

Synonyms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Greek: φλογέρα (flogéra)

References[edit]

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