garbë

See also: garbe, Garbe, garbé, and garbė

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *garbā, from Proto-Indo-European *gr̥bʰ- (compare Old Prussian garbis (“hill”), Serbo-Croatian gȑba (“hump”), Irish gearb (“scab, mange”)).[1]

Noun

garbë f (plural garba, definite garba, definite plural garbat)

  1. pot with a broken opening used for planting flowers
  2. nick or dent in a blade

Declension

Declension of garbë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative garbë garba garba garbat
accusative garbën
dative garbe garbës garbave garbave
ablative garbash

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “garbë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 109-110

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 499
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “garbë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]
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