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lezhë

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lezhe
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

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A growing city in northwestern Albania, located 5-6 km southeast of Shëngjin slightly northeast of the southern mouth of the river Drin (Small Drin), which passes through the town; the town is best known for being one of the former centres of the Illyrian kingdom and for its typically Illyrian fortification walls; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.

name

A county of Albania.

name

A municipality of the county of Lezhë, Albania.

name

A municipal unit of the municipality of Lezhë in the county of Lezhë, Albania.

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Lezhë, through phonetic shifts from Latin Lissus, from Ancient Greek Λίσσος (Líssos).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does lezhë mean?
A growing city in northwestern Albania, located 5-6 km southeast of Shëngjin slightly northeast of the southern mouth of the river Drin (Small Drin), which passes through the town; the town is best known for being one of the former centres of the Illyrian kingdom and for its typically Illyrian fortification walls; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.
Where does lezhë come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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