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Albanian
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Romance, akin to Italian vapa (“flame”), Romanian văpaie (“flame”), although the Italian term is a poetic hapax found in rhyming context, while the Romanian one is actually often derived from Albanian. Alternatively compare Italian afa (“sultriness”), possibly ultimately from a Paleo-Balkan *āpʰā, of which vapë would be the regular Tosk outcome.
Noun
vápë f (definite vapa) (originally Tosk, Arbëresh)
- sultriness, warmth, heat (of weather)
- Synonyms: ngrohtësi, bulçim
- heat (in the body)
- Synonym: nxehtësi
Declension
Declension of vapë
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singular
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indefinite
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definite
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vapë
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vapa
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| accusative
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vapën
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| dat./abl.
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vape
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vapës
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Derived terms
Adjective
vapë
- (archaic) hot
- Synonyms: vapët, nxehtë
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “vāpε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 463
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vapë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 494
- ^ Monte, Andrea (c. 1200) Ahi lasso doloroso, più non posso (in Italian), lines 18, 22: “lo volere, ove l'aggio, fior non cape. tenemi in foco con ardenti vape.”
- ^ “văpaie”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
Further reading
- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe , 1980