mëlçi

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mbëlçi

Etymology

From Italian milza.[1]

Noun

mëlçi f (indefinite plural mëlçi, definite singular mëlçia, definite plural mëlçitë)

  1. (anatomy) liver
  2. innards
  3. (colloquial) lungs

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References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 259.
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