Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

  • lorëz

Etymology edit

Unclear. Used in a phrase flas si lorza (to chat like a parrot). A suffixal diminutive of an unattested *lori (parrot lori, one of the subfamily Lorinae, now usually tribe Loriini).[1]

Noun edit

lorzë f (plural lorzë, definite lorza, definite plural lorzat)

  1. parrot
    Synonym: papagall

References edit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lorzë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 231

Further reading edit

  • lorëz”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006