kreshnik

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian krajišnik ("borderer, frontiersman"), from dialectal Kosovo Serbian kraešnik ("hero in the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors").[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

kreshnik m (plural kreshnikë, definite kreshniku, definite plural kreshnikët)

  1. hero in the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors
  2. champion

Declension

Declension of kreshnik
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative kreshnik kreshniku kreshnikë kreshnikët
accusative kreshnikun
dative kreshniku kreshnikut kreshnikëve kreshnikëve
ablative kreshnikësh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Omari, Anila (2012), "vraç", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 317-318
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kreshnik”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
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