karshi
Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قارشو (karşı, karşu, “opposite”), from Proto-Turkic *kar-.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
karshi
- (colloquial) in front, opposite, facing across, against
- Synonyms: përballë, kundrejt, ballë për ballë, përkundrejt
Preposition edit
karshi (+ablative) (colloquial)
Noun edit
karshi m
References edit
- “karshi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “karshi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “karshi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 253