Albanian
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Etymology
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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ویركی (vergi, “gift, present; tax, tribute; duty”).[1]
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /veɾˈɟi/
- Rhymes: -ɟi
- Hyphenation: ver‧gjí
vergji f (definite vergjia) (uncountable)
- (historical) property tax: paid to the local fief holder under the Ottoman Empire
- Synonym: carinë
Declension
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References
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- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “vergji”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 501
Further reading
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- “vergji”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- “vergji”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006