hamshor

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • harmëshor

Etymology

From dialectal harmëshor, from Old Albanian harmëshuar, from Vulgar Latin *armissārius (compare Romanian armăsar), from Latin admissārius.[1][2]

Noun

hamshor m (indefinite plural hamshorë, definite singular hamshori, definite plural hamshorët)

  1. stallion
  2. stud horse

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary, s.v. “harmëshor” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 143.
  2. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 232, 327.
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