qershi

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • qërrshi, qurrshi

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”).[1] Alternatively possibly partly through a Vulgar Latin and Late Latin intermediate ceresia < ceresium, from the same Greek root. Compare Romanian cireașă, Aromanian cireashi.

Noun

qershi f (plural qershi, definite qershia, definite plural qershitë)

  1. cherry

Synonyms

References
  1. Topalli, K. (2017) “qershi”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1215
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