gălbează

Etymology
. Often considered either a substratum term or derived from,. Another theory suggests the Albanian may instead be a borrowing from a local Romanian or Eastern Romance language (compare 🇨🇬), and that the word derives ultimately from a, through metathesis reaching a form *calvella, in turning giving early Romanian *călbea, to which the suffix -ză was later added (cf. this suffix in , , , ). Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , from a Latin *clavellus, from. For the meaning referring to the plant, it may indicate its use as a form of traditional medicine in liver illnesses.

Noun

 * 1) a disease of the liver affecting sheep (ovines) and bovines
 * 2) the parasite responsible for the aforementioned disease
 * 3) any of several species of parasitic plants in the genus, notably dodder and