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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *genía (“generation, clan”), compare Sicilian jinìa, Italian genia.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
gjini f (plural gjini, definite gjinia)
- tribe, clan, kin
- Synonyms: fis, farefis
- woman's relatives, woman's family
- (biology) genus
- gender, sex
- Synonym: seks
- (linguistics) gender
- (art) genre
- kind, sort
- Synonym: lloj
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “ǵirī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 141
Further reading
- “gjini”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980