përbërëse

Përbërëse is an Albanian term used to denote a component, ingredient, or constituent of a larger whole. It is commonly employed in everyday language to refer to the ingredients of a recipe, but it also appears in scientific and technical contexts to name the parts that make up a mixture, compound, material, or device. The word has masculine and feminine forms, typically rendered as përbërës (masculine) and përbërëse (feminine). In practice, shqiptimi and agreement follow the noun’s gender, with plural forms used when listing multiple components.

In cooking, përbërës refers to items such as flour, sugar, eggs, and butter—the building blocks of a dish. In chemistry and materials science, a përbërës is a constituent of a compound or a component of a material, such as a solvent, solute, or dopant that influences properties like reactivity and strength. In engineering or manufacturing, parts of a system or product are described as përbërës to indicate their role in the overall function.

Etymology traces the word to the Albanian verb përbëj, meaning to constitute or compose, with the suffixes that form substantives indicating agents or constituents. While synonyms include pjesë (part) and komponent (component), përbërëse emphasizes the idea of a forming element within a whole rather than a mere fragment.

See also: pjesë, komponent, përbërje.