fashë
Albanian
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed via Vulgar Latin from Latin fascia (“band, bandage”). Also attested as fashqe (“diaper”) (which, per Orel, is a singularized plural from *fashqë).[1] Compare Romanian fașă, with the same pronunciation.
Noun
editfashë f
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editUnknown; possibly related to Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “to withhold; to cease”).
Noun
editfashë f (plural fasha, definite fasha, definite plural fashat)
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fashqe”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 94