Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (abdest) from Persian آبدست (âbdast), compound of آب (âb, water) and دست (dast, hand).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

avdes m (plural avdesa, definite avdesi, definite plural avdesat) [1]

  1. abdest

References edit

  1. ^ Jungg, G. (1895) “avdes”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 6

Further reading edit

  • “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]