dhrim

Albanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”), with the initial dh- probably deriving from an original compound (cf. dhjetë), from earlier *ndrim, from Proto-Albanian *ən-treima.

Noun

dhrim m (plural dhrime, definite dhrimi, definite plural dhrimet) (ethnography)

1. the first and last three days of March
2. the first twelve days of August, during which weather forecasts were made

Declension

Declension of dhrim

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dhrim	dhrimi	dhrime	dhrimet
accusative		dhrimin
dative	dhrimi	dhrimit	dhrimeve	dhrimeve
ablative			dhrimesh

Further reading

• “dhrim”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “dhrim”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]