avdes

Albanian

Alternative forms

• abdes

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [avdɛs]

Noun

avdes m (plural avdesa, definite avdesi, definite plural avdesat)

1. abdest

Further reading

• “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]