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From Serbo-Croatian krȁjina (region) (compare Bulgarian крайна (krajna)),[1] from krȃj (end, border; region).[2] More at krah.

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krahinë f (plural krahina, definite krahina, definite plural krahinat)

  1. region
  2. (politics) province, particularly
  3. (historical) a former administrative division of Albania
  4. countryside, rural area

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  1. ^ Xhelal Ylli, Das slawische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 136.
  2. ^ Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Århus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 205–6.