nxjerrës

Nxjerrës is an Albanian noun meaning “extractor” or “one who extracts.” It is formed from the verb nxjerr, meaning to pull out or to extract, with the agentive suffix -ës. The term can refer to a person who performs extraction as a job, as well as to a device or instrument designed to obtain or separate a substance from a mixture.

In usage, nxjerrës is most common in technical and industrial contexts. It describes equipment that removes or isolates components, such as oil extractors, juice extractors, or ore extractors, and appears in manuals, catalogs, and process descriptions. The word is versatile enough to cover a range of extraction processes across fields like mining, food processing, and chemical industries.

Etymologically, nxjerrës illustrates a productive Albanian pattern for forming agent nouns: a verb indicating an action plus the suffix -ës to denote the doer or the instrument carrying out that action. Related terms include nxjerrje, the abstract noun for extraction, and other agent-noun formations built from verbs of action.

See also: nxjerrje.