shkrabë
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *skrabā, from Proto-Indo-European *skrobʰ- (compare Latin scrobis ‘pit’, Old English screpan (“to scratch”), Latvian skrabt ‘to scratch, plane’, Polish scrobać)[1].
Noun
shkrabë f
- scrawl, scribble
Related terms
- shkrep
References
- A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.422