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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from South Slavic, from Proto-Slavic *pobratimъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
probatin m (plural probatinë, definite probatini, definite plural probatinët)
- blood brother
- Synonym: vëllam
- (figurative) close friend, companion
Derived terms
References
- “probatín,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe (in Albanian), 1980, page 1550b
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “probatim”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 214
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “pobrotî […] probatín”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 403a
- Kristoforidhi, Kostandin (1904) “προbοτῖ-νι”, in Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἀλβανικῆς γλώσσης (in Greek), Athens, page 345
- Meyer, G. (1891) “probotím”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 354