havlli
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Albanian
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish خاولی (havlu).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]havlli f (plural havllí, definite havllía, definite plural havllítë) (archaic, colloquial)
- towel, bath towel
- Synonym: peshqir
- handkerchief
- Synonym: shami
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “havlli”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “havlli”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “havlí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 156