krah

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Albanian

Alternative forms

  • indefinite singular: krahë (m.; Tosk, Arvanitic, Gheg), kra ()
  • definite singular: krahi (Gheg, Old Albanian), kraha (f.; Bardhi)
  • indefinite plural: kraha (m.; Arvanitic)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *krau, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₂u, *ḱrh₂eu (limb). Close to Latin crūs.[1] Alternatively from archaic krahi, definite krai (Buzuku), from South Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *krajь (end; rim, edge; region) (compare Serbo-Croatian krȃj, Bulgarian край (kraj)). Similar sense development in Bulgarian край (kraj), крайник (krajnik), краиште (kraište, limb).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

krah m (plural krahë, definite krahu, definite plural krahët)

  1. arm
  2. shoulders and upper back
  3. armful
  4. armrest
  5. wing
  6. flank

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References

  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 224
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “krah”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 193-4

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Krach.

Pronunciation

Noun

krȁh m (Cyrillic spelling кра̏х)

  1. ruin, disaster, crash

Declension

References

  • krah”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024