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Friday, June 30, 2023

Albanian words which are similar to English words



In Albania you immediately see the words Hotel and Bar. Reading through two language or multi language information in hotels you find many more words look the same, with the letter c changed to k.

Some handy words include farmacia for pharmacy or chemist. Dentist is dentist, as I learned from an advertisement at the airport, confirmed later by other sources.  I had wondered whether the ad was partly in English for the benefit of English speakers, but a check of Albanian words proved the word dentist spelled exactly the same is Albanian as well as English.

When driving and watching signs, we eventually worked out that the Albanian for (city) cente is qender.

Taksi is taxi.

limon is lemon.




Alphabetical list

Albanian - English

bar - bar

dentist - dentist

farmaci - pharmacy/chemist/drug store

hotel - hotel

limon - lemon

qender - center/centre

taksi - taxi



English - Albanian

bar - bar

center/centre - qender

chemist/pharmacy - farmacia

dentist - dentist

Hotel - hotel

lemon - limon

taxi - taksi


https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Albanian/Loan_words_for_English_speakers

https://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/User:Jukeboksi/Learning_Albanian#Loan_words_for_French_speakers

https://app.memrise.com/course/1054595/discovering-albanian/1/

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