fashë
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Albanian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed via Vulgar Latin from Latin fascia (“band, bandage”). Also attested as fashqe (“diaper”) (which, per Orel, is a singularized plural from *fashqë).[1] Compare Romanian fașă, with the same pronunciation.
Noun
[edit]fashë f
Synonyms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown; possibly related to Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “to withhold; to cease”).
Noun
[edit]fashë f (plural fasha, definite fasha, definite plural fashat)
References
[edit]- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fashqe”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 94