xham

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جام (cam, “glass”), from Persian جام (jâm, “glass”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒam/

Noun

xham m (plural xhama / xhame, definite xhami, definite plural xhamat / xhamet)

  1. glass (material)

Declension

Declension of xham
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative xham xhami xhama xhamat
accusative xhamin
dative xhami xhamit xhamave xhamave
ablative xhamash

or

Declension of xham
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative xham xhami xhame xhamet
accusative xhamin
dative xhami xhamit xhameve xhameve
ablative xhamesh

Synonyms

Further reading

  • “xham”, 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) “xham”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary
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