shishman

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیشمان‎ (şişman).[1][2][3]

Noun

shishman m (plural shishmanë) (archaic)

  1. very fat person, fatso
    Synonyms: trashaman, shishko

Adjective

shishman (feminine shishmane) (archaic)

  1. very fat, obese
    Synonyms: i shëndoshë, i trashë

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891), “šišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 406
  2. Topalli, K. (2017), “shishman”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1387
  3. Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “shishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 450

Further reading
  • “shishman”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1844
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