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Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rəˈʃajə/
- Rhymes: -ajə
- Hyphenation: rrë‧shá‧jë
Etymology 1
From Latin rosalia.
Noun
rrëshajë f (plural rrëshajë, definite plural rrëshajët)
- (plural only) Pentecost
Etymology 2
Either identical to the aforementioned etymology or from rrëshqas (“to slide, slip”), a prefixal derivative of shqas/shkas (rrëshqanë (“crawling, dragging”) has a similar formation). Meyer likens it to the stem rrësh- while Barić to Latin vorrō.[1]
Noun
rrëshajë f (plural rrëshája, definite rrëshája, definite plural rrëshájat) (Gheg)
- viper
- Synonym: nepërkë
- reptile
- Synonym: zvarranik
Declension
References
Further reading
- “rrëshajë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “rrëshajë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “rrëshajë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 437