nahijë

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ناحیه (nâhiye), from Arabic نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya).[1]

Noun

nahijë f (plural nahíje, definite nahíja, definite plural nahíjet) (colloquial, regional)

  1. region, frontier, district
    Synonyms: krahinë, rrethinë, ngastër
    nahija e Shkodrës ― Shkodra region
  2. (politics, historical) nahiyah, particularly as a former third-level administrative division of Albania.

Declension

Declension of nahijë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nahijë nahija nahije nahijet
accusative nahijën
dative nahije nahijës nahijeve nahijeve
ablative nahijesh

Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “nahije”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 328

Further reading

  • “nahijë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “nahijë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “nahí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 303
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