badër

See also: bader, Bader, and Bäder

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • badhër, bathër

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bāstrā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰes- (“to blow”), compare Sanskrit भस्त्रा (bhástrā, “bellows”).[1] Alternatively from bardhë (“white”).[2]

Noun

badër f (indefinite plural badra, definite singular badra, definite plural badrat)

  1. asphodel (Asphodelus)

Synonyms
  • presh i egër

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 13
  2. Topalli, Kolec (2017), “badër”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 82
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