mëlçi

Albanian

Alternative forms

mbëlçi

Etymology

From Italian milza.[1]

Noun

mëlçi f (indefinite plural mëlçi, definite singular mëlçia, definite plural mëlçitë)

(anatomy) liver
innards
(colloquial) lungs

Synonyms

mushkëri (“lungs”) (Tosk)
mushkni (“lungs”) (Gheg)
shpretka (“liver”) (Tosk)
shpnetka (“liver”) (Gheg)
shnetka (“liver”) (archaic)[2] (used in Kosovo and North Macedonia)

Hyponyms

mëlçi e bardhë (“lung”)
mëlçi e zezë (“liver”)

References

Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 134, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder

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