kamxhik

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قامچی (kamçı, “whip”).[1]

Noun

kamxhik m (plural kamxhikë, definite kamxhiku, definite plural kamxhikët)

  1. whip, riding crop
  2. (biology) flagellum

Declension

Declension of kamxhik
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kamxhik kamxhiku kamxhikë kamxhikët
accusative kamxhikun
dative kamxhiku kamxhikut kamxhikëve kamxhikëve
ablative kamxhikësh

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kamxhik”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 244

Further reading

  • “kamxhik”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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