gjini

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *genía (generation, clan), compare Sicilian jinìa, Italian genia.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

gjini f (plural gjini, definite gjinia)

  1. tribe, clan, kin
    Synonyms: fis, farefis
  2. woman's relatives, woman's family
  3. (biology) genus
  4. gender, sex
    Synonym: seks
  5. (linguistics) gender
  6. (art) genre
  7. kind, sort
    Synonym: lloj

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References

  1. ^ 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