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ALBANIAN LANGUAGE DICTIONARY, BY MEHMET ELEZI

-41.000 words not found in the dictionaries of the Academy of Sciences, with etymological explanations

This Dictionary, product of a long hard work of the writer and publicist Mehmet Elezi, was published in Tirana (firs publication 2006). The dictionary contains 41.000 words and more than 54.000 meanings, which are not included in the dictionaries of the Academy of Sciences (1980, 2002). It also includes more than 5300 phraseologies.

This Albanian Language Dictionary, together with the Dictionary of the Present Albanian Language (1980), has the highest number of entries of all the dictionaries of Albanian Language published until the day of its publication.

This Dictionary is the only one that covers the etymology of the words.

Moreover, this is the only Albanian Dictionary illustrated with thousands of verses and expressions from the works of over 40 authors, from Gjergj Fishta to Anton Pashku, Anton Çeta and Ismail Kadare; from masterpieces such as the Canon of Lekë Dukagjini, The Legendary Epos, The Nation’s Treasuries and other folkloric treasures.

The Dictionary of Elezi is illustrated with over 5000 sayings; about 1000 riddles, superstitions and prejudices, customs, wordplays, conjuring, etc. Most of them are published for the first time.

This Dictionary is not an alternative to the dictionaries of the Academy of Sciences and it cannot be such, since it includes new words and meanings, not found in those dictionaries.

A reviewed edition of the essay “Albanian Language in a Bunker?!” is jointly published, where the author develops his essential viewpoints on the Albanian Language, its standard and its future.

The Albanian Language Dictionary of Mehmet Elezi is a voluminous work, with over 1700 pages, hardcover, published by the “Gjergj Fishta” Polygraphist Publishing Company.

The dictionary is available in the main bookstores of Tirana.

The author is the Ambassador of the Republic of Albania in the Swiss Confederation (Berne). He can be contacted at these e-mail addresses: m.elezi@bluewin.ch or mehmetelezaj@yahoo.com