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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from sessum (“seated”). Compare Romanian șes (“plain”).
Pronunciation
Noun
shesh m (plural sheshe)
- plain, field, flatland (usually uncoltivated)
- Synonyms: fushë, rrafsh
- square (of a town), plaza
- place designated for something, camp, field
- shesh veror ― summer camp
- shesh sportiv ― playing field, sports field
- shesh betejash ― battlefield
- ground, floor, soil
- Synonyms: truall, tokë, dhe
- plane; surface
- Synonyms: faqe; sipërfaqe
Derived terms
Adjective
shesh
- flat, level
- Synonyms: i sheshtë, i rrafshët
Adverb
shesh
- seated, sitting
- Synonyms: ulur, ndenjur
- rri shesh ― to sit
- (figurative) calmly, relaxedly
- Synonyms: shtruar, këmbëkryq
Verb
shesh (aorist shesha, participle sheshur)
- (transitive, dialectal) to level, flatten
- Synonym: sheshoj
References
- “shesh,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1829f.
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shesh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 412
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shesh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 472ab
- Meyer, G. (1891) “šeš”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 402