abdes

Albanian

Alternative forms

• avdes

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (âbdest), from Classical Persian آبدست (ābdast). Alternatively via Serbo-Croatian abdes given the loss of the -t.

Noun

abdes m (definite abdesi)

1. abdest

Declension

Declension of abdes

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	abdes	abdesi
accusative		abdesin
dative/ablative	abdesi	abdesit

Further reading

• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000), Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abdes)
• “abdes”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “abdes”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press

Latin

Verb

abdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of abdō

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See àbdest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎbdes/
• Hyphenation: ab‧des

Noun

àbdes m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀бдес)

1. alternative form of àbdest

Descendants

• →? Albanian: abdes