meskin

Albanian

Etymology

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Adjective

meskín (feminine meskine)

1. (literary) narrow-minded

   Synonym: shpirtvogël

Further reading

• “meskin”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Kabyle

Etymology

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic مسكين (miskīn), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məskin/

Adjective

meskin (feminine meskint, common plural msakit)

1. poor (inspiring pity)

Inflection

Inflection of meskin

	masculine		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural
free state	meskin	msakit	meskint	msakit

Derived terms

• smesken (“to pretend to be poor, to look poor”)

References

• Association Culturelle Numidya (2025), “Amawal, dictionnaire kabyle-français en ligne”, in Amawal‎^[1], retrieved 2025
• Dallet, Jean-Marie (1982), Dictionnaire kabyle-français: parler des At Mangellat, Algérie (in French), Paris, France