qere

English

Noun

qere (plural qeres)

  1. A technical orthographic device used to indicate the pronunciation of the words in the Masoretic text of the Tanakh.

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • qerë

Etymology

Borrowed via Vulgar Latin from Latin cariēs (“rot”).[1][2]

Noun

qere f (indefinite plural qere, definite singular qerja, definite plural qeret)

  1. ringworm of the scalp (Tinea capitis)
  2. baldness

Hyponyms
  • qere e këmbëve (“Athlete's foot”) (Tinea pedis)
  • qere e thonjve (“onychomycosis”) (Tinea unguium)

Derived terms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 357
  2. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1999), 290–1.
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