pishman

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پشیمان (peşiman), پشمان (pişman).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -an

Adverb

pishman (colloquial)

  1. regretful, repentant
    Synonym: pendueshëm
    bëhem pishman ― to have regrets

Noun

pishman m (definite pishmani) (archaic)

  1. remorse, regret
    Synonym: pendim

References

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1489b
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pishman”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363f.
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “pišmán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 240
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.