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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خائن (ha'in, hayın, “traitor, mischievous”), from Arabic خَائِن (ḵāʔin, “traitor”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hajn m (plural hajnë, definite hajni, definite plural hajnët) (regional, dialectal)
- robber, brigand, thief
- Synonyms: hajdut, vjedhës, grabitës, kusar
- (obsolete) apostate
- grassator, rebel
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References
- “hajn”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “hajn”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 152
- Jungg, G. (1895) “hain”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 43
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hajn”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 182