zijafet

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ضیافت (zıyâfet, ziyâfet), from Arabic ضِيَافَة (ḍiyāfa), verbal noun of ضَافَ (ḍāfa).[1]

Noun

zijafét m

  1. (dated) feast, banquet

Declension

Declension of zijafet
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative zijafet zijafeti zijafete zijafetet
accusative zijafetin
dative zijafeti zijafetit zijafeteve zijafeteve
ablative zijafetesh

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “zijafet”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 529

Further reading

  • “zijafet”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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