shami

See also: Shami

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شامه (şame), see there for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃaˈmi/
  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

shami f (plural shami, definite shamia, definite plural shamitë)

  1. handkerchief
    Synonyms: mafër, mafes, facoletë
    In full: shami xhepi (literally “pocket kerchief”)
  2. headscarf, kerchief
  3. neckerchief

Declension

Declension of shami
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative shami shamia shami shamitë
accusative shaminë
dative shamie shamisë shamive shamive
ablative shamish

Derived terms

  • shamibardhë
  • shamikuqe
  • shamiverdhë
  • shamizezë

References

  • “shamí,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 1817a
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shami”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 440
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “shamí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 468a
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “šamī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 399

Ido

Noun

shami

  1. plural of shamo

Japanese

Romanization

shami

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しゃみ
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