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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یتیم (yetim).[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Noun
jetim m (plural jetimë); feminine equivalent jetime
- orphan
Adjective
jetim (feminine jetime)
- orphaned
- jetim nga nëna ― motherless
- abandoned, desolate, lonely
- Synonyms: i shkretë, i vetmuar
Derived terms
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “jetím”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 163
- ^ Mann, S. E. (1948) “jetim”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 170b
- ^ Boretzky, N. (1976) Wörterbuch der albanischen Turzismen (Der türkische Einfluss auf das Albanische; 2) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 70
- ^ Çabej, E. (1996) “jetim”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes IV: Dh–J, Tirana, page 408
- ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “jetim”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 673
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “jetim”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 230
Further reading
- “jetim”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 244