gërmadhë

Albanian

Etymology

Compound of gër- +‎ madh (“big”), with a semantic development ‘something bulky and destroyed’. The proposed Old Church Slavonic грамада (gramada, “heap, mass”) is probably an Albanian borrowing. See also Romanian grămadă.

Noun

gërmadhë f (indefinite plural gërmadha, definite singular gërmadha, definite plural gërmadhat)

  1. ruins, mass of stones
  2. old building ruins, rundown building
  3. scraggy, weak person
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