pekmez

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پكمز (pekmez).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pekˈmez/
• Rhymes: -ez
• Hyphenation: pek‧méz

Noun

pekmez m (definite pekmézi)

1. fruit paste, molasses, jam, electuary

References

1. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pekmez”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 357

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
• “pekmez”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “pekmez”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 358

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پكمز (pekmez).

Noun

pèkmez m (Cyrillic spelling пѐкмез)

1. jam, marmalade (mixture of fruit boiled with sugar)
2. (colloquial, derogatory) child who cries excessively, crybaby
3. (colloquial, derogatory) person given to crying and complaining when something isn’t going well or needs to be done, sissy, crybaby

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	pekmez	pekmezi
genitive	pekmeza	pekmeza
dative	pekmezu	pekmezima
accusative	pekmez	pekmeze
vocative	pekmezu	pekmezi
locative	pekmezu	pekmezima
instrumental	pekmezom	pekmezima

Declension of pekmez

Synonyms

• džȅm

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پكمز (pekmez).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pecˈmæz]
• Hyphenation: pek‧mez

Noun

pekmez

1. molasses