hajn

• hain (“grassator, rebel”)
• hajin
• ajn
• ajin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خائن (ha'in, hayın, “traitor, mischievous”), from Arabic خَائِن (ḵāʔin, “traitor”).

• IPA^(key): /hajn/

hajn m (plural hajnë, definite hajni, definite plural hajnët) (regional, dialectal)

1. robber, brigand, thief

   Synonyms: hajdut, vjedhës, grabitës, kusar

2. (obsolete) apostate
3. grassator, rebel

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “hajn”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 152
• Jungg, G. (1895) “hain”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 43
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hajn”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 182