pushkë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian puška. Compare also Czech and Slovak puška, Hungarian puska, Russian пушка (puška), Romanian puşcă.

Noun

pushkë f

  1. rifle

Declension

Declension of pushkë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pushkë pushka pushkë pushkët
accusative pushkën
dative pushke pushkës pushkëve pushkëve
ablative pushkësh

Further reading

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