selvi

Albanian

Alternative forms

• sellvi — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i

Noun

selvi f (plural selvi, definite selvia, definite plural selvitë)

1. cypress

   Synonym: qiparis

Derived terms

• selvishte

 

References

• “selvi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1740b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “selvi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 417f.
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “selv-í”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 448a
• Meyer, G. (1891) “sełvī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 381