pikë

See also: pike, piké, and Pike

Albanian[edit]

Compare pik (“to drip, leak”).^[1] Compare also Romanian pic (“a drop of water, a bit”)^[2] and Sicilian picca (“a bit, a little”).

pikë f (plural pika, definite pika, definite plural pikat)

drop, droplet (of liquid)
deri në pikën e fundit të gjakut ― till the last drop of blood; to the death
(figurative) a small amount, a little, a bit (also in negative sentences)
A ke një pikë uji? ― Do you have a little water?

mbeti asnjë pikë ― not even a little bit left

pa pikë turpi ― without the slightest bit of shame

pa pikë dyshimi ― without the slightest amount of doubt
- 1873, Girolamo de Rada, Canti di Milosao, canto 2, page 18, line 18:
  vaiζ my jep ti gnύ pic uij?
  [vajzë, më jep ti një pikë uji?]
  girl, will you give me a drop of water?
hole, leak (in a roof)
dot, spot
pikë e zezë ― black dot

pikë e kuqe ― red dot

pulë me pika ― chiken with spots; spotted chicken

fustan me pika ― dress with spots; spotted dress
freckle, mole, birthmark
fytyrë me pika ― face with freckles; freckled face
(typography) point, (by itself) period, full stop
pika dhe presja ― semicolon (literally, “the point and the comma”)

dy pika ― colon (literally, “two points”)

pikë çuditëse ― exclamation point
(mathematics) point, decimal point
dhjetë pikë pesë ― ten point five = 10.5
(music) point (at the right of a note, raises its value by a half)
(geometry) point (zero-dimensional object)
(medicine) stroke (often in curses)
Të rëntë pika! ― May you have a stroke!

Declension of pikë

^ Meyer, G. (1891) “pik”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 325
^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pikë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 325