bubrek

== Albanian == === Alternative forms === bumbrek bubrreq bubreq bubureke buburriqe bubarreq === Etymology === Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوبرك (böbrek, “kidney”), from Proto-Turkic *bögrek (“kidney”). === Noun === bubrek m (plural bubrekë, definite bubreku, definite plural bubrekët) (colloquial, anatomy) (dated) kidney (obsolete) liver ==== Declension ==== === References === FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980 “bubrek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006 Mann, S. E. (1948), “bubrreq”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 39 Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “bubrek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 89