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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بطانیه (battaniye, “blanket”), itself from Arabic بَطَّانِيَّة (baṭṭāniyya, “blanket”).
Noun
batanije f (plural batanije, definite batanija, definite plural batanijet)
- fluffy blanket (cotton or thin wool)
1986, Agim Cerga, Legjenda e vadave:
Further reading
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “batanije”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste