verbët
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
From verb (“blind person”) + -të.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
i verbët
Noun edit
i verbët m (definite i verbëti)
- Synonym of i verbër (“blind person”)
Noun edit
të verbët n (definite të verbëtit)
- (archaic) blindness
- Synonym: verbëri
- 1685, Pjetër Bogdani, Cuneus Prophetarum. Pars Prima, II.IV.10, page 81:
- Prasctu tè verbetitè atij Popuλi chiertõ Isaia
- [Prashtu të verbëtitë atij populli qërton Isaia]
- Therefore Isaiah reprimands the blindness of that people
References edit
- “vérbët”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2131b
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “verb-as […] -ët”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 550a
- Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “βέρβε̯ρε̯”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης [Lexikòn tês Albanikês glṓssēs] (in Greek), Athens, page 21
- Jungg, G. (1895) “verbt”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 170b
- Rossi, F. (1875) “vèrbet”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 1321b
- Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 9: “caecitas — teuerbetite”