verdhë

Albanian[edit]

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin virdis, from Latin viridis (“green”). Sense 4 is a semantic loan from Italian giallo (literally “yellow”). Sense 2 is shared with Romanian verde (literally “green”).

i verdhë

yellow
pale
Synonym: i zbehtë

i verdhë në fytyrë ― with a pale face (literally, “pale in the face”)
(colloquial) yellow (of race), mongoloid
raca e verdhë ― yellow race
involving crimes and detective work (of a story)
roman i verdhë ― crime novel, mystery novel
(archaic or dialectal) green, fresh-leaves-coloured
Synonym: i gjelbër
(archaic) gold, golden (of coins)
Synonym: i artë

të verdhë n (plural të verdhët)

“vérdhë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2132f.
Mann, S. E. (1948) “verdhë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 550b
Meyer, G. (1891) “verθ”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 446
Jungg, G. (1895) “verξ”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 170b
Rossi, F. (1875) “vèrξ”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1323b
Miklosich, Franz (1871) “viridis”, in Albanische Forschungen II. Die romanischen Elemente im Albanischen (in German), Vienna: Karl Gerold’s Sohn, page 71
Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 184: “viridis — verξe”