qamet

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kiamet — Standard Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیامت (kıyamet, “doomsday; great disaster”).

Noun

qamet m (plural qametë)

1. great misfortune, disaster, calamity

   U bë qameti.

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2. (religion) end of the world, apocalypse;

References

• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kiamet”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 264