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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شامه (şame), see there for more.
Pronunciation
Noun
shami f (plural shami, definite shamia, definite plural shamitë)
- handkerchief
- Synonyms: mafër, mafes, facoletë
- In full: shami xhepi (literally “pocket kerchief”)
- headscarf, kerchief
- neckerchief
Derived terms
References
- “shamí,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1817a
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shami”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 440
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shamí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 468a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “šamī́”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 399
Ido
Noun
shami
- plural of shamo
Japanese
Romanization
shami
- Rōmaji transcription of しゃみ