lugat
التعريفات والمعاني
== Acehnese ==
=== Etymology ===
Ultimately from From Arabic لُغَة (luḡa, “language, dialect”).
=== Noun ===
lugat
dialect
== Albanian ==
=== Alternative forms ===
luvgat, luvgjat
=== Etymology ===
According to Orel, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *lupus peccatus (“false wolf”), though with difficult semantics.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [luˈɡat]
Rhymes: -at
Hyphenation: lu‧gát
=== Noun ===
lugat m (plural lugétër, definite lugáti, definite plural lugétërit)
(mythology) revenant: a spiteful person who rises from the grave after death and terrorizes people, zombie, vampire
Synonyms: kukudh, vampir, vurkollak
(mythology) werewolf
Synonyms: njeri ujk, vurkollak
(figurative, derogatory) a very ugly or spiteful person
==== Related terms ====
lubi
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980
“lugat”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Mann, S. E. (1948), “lugát”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 251