çaj

See also: čaj and caj

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaj/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (çay).

Noun

çaj m

  1. tea
Declension
Declension of çaj
singular
indefinite definite
nominative çaj çaji
accusative çajin
dat./abl. çaji çajit

Etymology 2

From older variant çanj, from Proto-Albanian *štšenja, from Proto-Indo-European *sked-n-ie/o, from *sked- (to cut, hack) (compare Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi), Avestan 𐬯𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (scindaiieiti)).

Alternative forms

  • çanj, shajNorth Gheg

Verb

çaj (aorist çava, participle çarë)

  1. to split, cleave
  2. to smash, batter
  3. to chop (to bits), hack
Conjugation
Derived terms

Further reading

  • çaj”, 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
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “çaj”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]