gajle

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ﻏﺎﺋﻠﻪ (gaile).[1]

Noun

gajle f

  1. (colloquial) worry, trouble
    Synonyms: gulm, shqetësim, kasavet

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gajle”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 165

Further reading

  • “gajle”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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