{"word":"sterrë","entries":[{"pos":"adj","senses":[{"gloss":"pitch dark","lang":"en","examples":[{"text":"u nxi qielli, u bë sterrë"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"jet black","lang":"en","examples":[{"text":"Vétœ e bárdhœ é kóka stérhœ"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"evil, dirty","lang":"en","tags":["figuratively"],"examples":[{"text":"e ka ndërgjegjen sterrë"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"}],"sources":["en-wiktionary"],"ipa":["/ˈsterə/"],"etymology":"Disputed. Possibilities include:\n# Identical to sterrë /sterë /sternë (“underground cistern”). The factor that links the two is its darkness for someone looking from above. In fact it is often used in the expression sterrë i zi.\n# An expressive prefixal derivative of terr (“darkness”).\n# Metathesis of an unattested *cerrë /*cernë, borrowed from Serbo-Croatian crn /црн (“black”).","forms":[{"form":"sterrë","tags":["feminine"]}]},{"pos":"noun","senses":[{"gloss":"Alternative form of sternë (“underground cistern”)","lang":"en","source":"wikidata"}],"sources":["wikidata"]}],"sources":["en-wiktionary","wikidata","ai"],"variantOf":[{"word":"sternë","kind":"alternative","source":"en-wiktionary"}],"description":{"text":"I zi sterrë.","source":"ai"},"loan":{"from":"Greek"},"frequency":137,"wikipediaCount":118,"url":"https://fjalorishqip.org/fjala/sterr%C3%AB/","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","sameMeaning":[{"word":"keq","relation":"other"},{"word":"lig","relation":"other"},{"word":"pis","relation":"other"}],"attribution":["Wiktionary (English edition), Albanian entries — CC BY-SA 4.0 (and GFDL)","Wikidata Lexemes (Albanian) — CC0 1.0 (public domain)","Përshkrime shqip me ndihmë të AI-së / Albanian descriptions written with AI help — CC BY-SA 4.0"]}