rrum

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *wrubna. Cognate to Lithuanian virbas (“branch, shoot”), Ancient Greek ράμνος (rámnos, “thorny bush”).[1]

Noun

rrum m (plural rruma, definite rrumi, definite plural rrumat)

  1. clapper, maize-cob (stripped of corns)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “rrum”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
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