aksham

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آخشام (akşam, “evening”).[1][2]

Noun

akshám m (plural aksháme, definite akshámi, definite plural akshámet)

  1. (archaic) evening, sunset
    Synonym: mbrë́mje
  2. (Islam) evening prayer, isha
    Near-synonym: mbrëmjesóre (“vespers”)

Declension

Declension of aksham
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative aksham akshami akshame akshamet
accusative akshamin
dative akshami akshamit akshameve akshameve
ablative akshamesh

References

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “akšám”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 7
  2. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “aksham”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 34–35

Further reading

  • Jungg, G. (1895) “akscam”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 2
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “aksham”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]
  • “aksham”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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