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bunar

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buˈnaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

bunar m (plural bunarë)

  1. well
    Synonym: pus
  2. spring, fountain
    Synonyms: krua, burim
  3. pond, pond
    Synonyms: hurdhë, pellg
  4. (dialectal) tank, cistern

Derived terms

  • i bunartë

Further reading

  • “bunar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “bunár,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 197b
  • Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “bunar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 92
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “bunar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 42b
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “bunár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 53
  • Jungg, G. (1895), “bunaar”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 13b
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

Noun

bunar m (plural bunari)

  1. (Banat, Oltenia) well

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bǔnaːr/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧nar

Noun

bùnār m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̀на̄р)

  1. well (hole sunk into the ground)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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