gjini
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Albanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *genía (“generation, clan”), compare Sicilian jinìa, Italian genia.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gjini f (plural gjini, definite gjinia)
- tribe, clan, kin
- woman's relatives, woman's family
- (biology) genus
- gender, sex
- Synonym: seks
- (linguistics) gender
- (art) genre
- kind, sort
- Synonym: lloj
Declension
[edit]Declension of gjini
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gjini”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980