fshat

Albanian

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”). According to Barić, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sed- (“sitting around”), and according to Balota in RHSEU, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-sek-ti- (“tilled around”).

Noun

fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

1. village, especially (politics) as a unit of local government in Albania
2. rural area, countryside

Declension

Declension of fshat

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	fshat	fshatra	fshati	fshatrat
accusative			fshatin
dative	fshati	fshatrave	fshatit	fshatravet
ablative		fshatrash

Coordinate terms

• katund, trevë
• vilajet, sanxhak, kaza, nahijë
• prefekturë, nënprefekturë, krahinë, bashki, komunë
• qark, rreth, lokalitet, lagje

Descendants

• → Romanian: sat, fsat