zabel

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from an older South Slavic language, possibly from Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), compare Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance").[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zaˈbɛl/

Noun

zabel f (indefinite plural zabele, definite singular zabeli, definite plural zabelet)

  1. grove

Synonyms
  • korije
  • prozhëm

References
  1. Omari, Anila (2012), "zabel", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 320-321
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