Albanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آخشام (akşam, evening).[1][2]

Noun edit

akshám m (plural aksháme, definite akshámi, definite plural akshámet)

  1. (archaic) evening, sunset
    Synonym: mbrë́mje
  2. (Islam) evening prayer, isha
    Near-synonym: mbrëmjesóre (vespers)

Declension edit

References edit

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “akšám”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 7
  2. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “aksham”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 34–35

Further reading edit

  • Jungg, G. (1895) “akscam”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 2
  • “aksham”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “aksham”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]
  • aksham”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006