From Bulgarian surla, from Ottoman Turkish زورنا (zurna), ultimately from Persian زرنا (zornâ). Similar path with Romanian surla. A direct borrowing from Turkish is excluded due to u:y shift in some of the variants, and because the Turkish word has gone into Albanian as zurnë. An intersection of cule with zurnë gas given alternative variants such as curlë, curunë, etc.^[1]

• cyl m, cylë, cyle, culë, cyllë
• curlë, xurlë, surle, curunë

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sulɛ/, /t͡suˈlɛ/
• Rhymes: -ule, -e

cule f (plural cule, definite culja, definite plural culet)

1. (music) Short, single- or double-barreled double-reed instrument with eight fingerholes. aulos, tibia
2. tibia, shinbone

   Synonyms: kërci, fyell

3. (regional) snout (of a pig)

   Synonyms: turi, feçkë

4. (music) chanter (of a bagpipe)

Akin to Slovene cula (“bundle”), Hungarian cula (“bundle”).^[2] Barić and Jokl derive it from Proto-Indo-European *k`uts-lo-, akin to Greek σχύτος (schýtos, “skin”), Latin culleus (“leather bag”), and bring the Slovene and Hungarian words derived from it, although the absence of it in other Southern Slavic languages makes it difficult. Çabej derives it from cull, starting from its first meaning leather, akin to calik and cullnik.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sulɛ/
• Rhymes: -ule

cule f (plural cule, definite culja, definite plural culet)

1. bundle
2. crowd, band, group of people

   Synonym: çetë

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sulɛ/

cule

1. alternative form of crule^[4]

• “cule”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sulɛ]

cule

1. masculine singular present transgressive of culit

cule

1. inflection of culer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

cūle

1. vocative singular of cūlus

From Old Dutch *kūla, from Proto-Germanic *kūlō.

cule f or m

1. hole in the ground, dip, pit

• Dutch: kuil
• Limburgish: koel

• “cule”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “cule (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

cule

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of coule

cūle f

1. alternative form of cugele

• Hyphenation: cu‧le

cule m (plural cules)

1. alternative form of cúli

• “cule”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cule”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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