# Albanian Insults / Curse Words (translation help, please!)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albanian-insults-curse-words-translation-help-please/419719 "2007-09-19T06:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albanian-insults-curse-words-translation-help-please/419719/21 "2007-09-24T18:40:12Z")

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Oops – I meant she’s stationed in Macedonia… my apologies. That said, she did have to learn Albanian to work there.

Here is her response:  
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Well, korva is whore. That one I know for sure. It is also used to mean bitch. The first one probably has something to do with fuck (fuck is çi, pronounced chee). The others I’m not familiar with, but I can ask around. I wonder if this Albanian is from Macedonia or Kosovo, somewhere where the Albanian has a lot of Slavic words, because that is true of korva, and some of those other words look pretty Slavic to me.\*\*

Doesn’t answer everything, but it’s what I got.

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**Author:** ![VeToMiNaToR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/977dab/32.png) [@VeToMiNaToR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VeToMiNaToR)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albanian-insults-curse-words-translation-help-please/419719/22 "2012-02-03T00:22:57Z")

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> [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](#):
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> I have an Albanian coworker who is always muttering insults under her breath. I asked her a couple, and she translated them for me – but some, she won’t translate. I’m curious to know what they mean and how to spell them.
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> The ones I know are _budalla / budallaçkë_ which is “fool” and _gomar / gomarica_, which is “jackass”.
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> The ones I don’t know sound like:
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> [ol][li]CHEEN - ga (or guh)[/li][li]ro - SPEE - ya[/li][li]COR - va (or vuh)[/li][li]po - TAAHN - ka (or kuh)[/li][li]har - JESH - ka (kuh)[/li][/ol]  
> I do _not_ know how to spell these in Albanian, and I do not know what they mean. If you do, please help! And if you know, can I have both the feminine and masculine versions? Thank you.

I’m 100% Albanian from Kosova, & I will translate you the 3-4 most used insults in Albanian:

(english) = (albanian) = (pronunciation)  
Fuck = Qi = Chee  
Lavire = Bitch = Laweere (not “KURVA” kurva is SERBIAN) ps: the last letter “E” is spelled like hhmmm… like “HEY” without the H & Y (try to say HEY without H & Y)  
Rrospi = Slut = Rrospee (Rr \> Strong “R” like Arrrr without the A just the rrrr)  
Kar = Dick = Car  
Pidh = Pussy = Peeth

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