zabel

See also: Zabel

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), and modern Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance"). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈbɛl/

Noun

zabel f (plural zabele, definite zabeli, definite plural zabelet)

1. grove

Synonyms

• korije
• prozhëm