bunar

Albanian

Alternative forms

• bonar — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Noun

bunar m (plural bunarë)

1. well

   Synonym: pus

2. spring, fountain

   Synonyms: krua, burim

3. pond, pond

   Synonyms: hurdhë, pellg

4. (dialectal) tank, cistern

Derived terms

• i bunartë

Further reading

• “bunar”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• “bunár,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 197b
• Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “bunar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 92
• Mann, S. E. (1948), “bunar”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 42b
• Meyer, G. (1891), “bunár”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 53
• Jungg, G. (1895), “bunaar”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 13b

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

Noun

bunar m (plural bunari)

1. (Banat, Oltenia) well

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bunar	bunarul	bunari	bunarii
genitive-dative	bunar	bunarului	bunari	bunarilor
vocative	bunarule		bunarilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوكار (buñar, “fountain, spring; wellhead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔnaːr/
• Hyphenation: bu‧nar

Noun

bùnār m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̀на̄р)

1. well (hole sunk into the ground)

Declension

Declension of bunar

	singular	plural
nominative	bùnār	bunari
genitive	bunára	bunara
dative	bunaru	bunarima
accusative	bunar	bunare
vocative	bunaru / bunare	bunari
locative	bunaru	bunarima
instrumental	bunarom	bunarima

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunar.