bishtajë

Uncertain, but cognate to Romanian păstaie (“pod”), Aromanian pãstalji (“pod”):

• Possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pī̆stālia (whence also the (A)Romanian words), from Late Latin pī̆stāre (“to pound”), frequentative of Latin pīnsāre (“to stamp, pound, crush”),^[1] but this is semantically questionable.
• An alternative proposal is from bisht (“tail”) +‎ -ajë.^[2]
• Finally, may be of the same Iranian origin as Latin pistacium (“pistacchio”), Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion), βιστάκιον (bistákion), Persian بسته (boste, “nut”), Sanskrit बुस्त (busta, “husk or shell of fruit”).

bishtajë f (plural bishtaja, definite bishtaja, definite plural bishtajat)

1. pod (of beans)

• “bishtajë”, 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) “bishtajë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]