zabel
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from an older South Slavic language, possibly from Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), compare Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance").[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zaˈbɛl/
Noun
zabel f (indefinite plural zabele, definite singular zabeli, definite plural zabelet)
- grove
Synonyms
- korije
- prozhëm
References
- Omari, Anila (2012), "zabel", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 320-321