Albanian
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Alternative forms
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Etymology
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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (abdest) from Persian آبدست (âbdast), compound of آب (âb, “water”) and دست (dast, “hand”).
Pronunciation
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avdes m (plural avdesa, definite avdesi, definite plural avdesat) [1]
- abdest
References
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- ^ Jungg, G. (1895) “avdes”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 6
Further reading
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- “avdes”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- Newmark, L. (1999) “avdes”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]