nahijë

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish ناحیه (nâhiye), from Arabic نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya).[1]

Noun

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nahijë f (plural nahíje, definite nahíja, definite plural nahíjet) (colloquial, regional)

  1. region, frontier, district
    Synonyms: krahinë, rrethinë, ngastër
    nahija e Shkodrës ― Shkodra region
  2. (politics, historical) nahiyah, particularly as a former third-level administrative division of Albania.

Declension

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Declension of nahijë
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nahijë nahija nahije nahijet
accusative nahijën
dative nahije nahijës nahijeve nahijeve
ablative nahijesh

Coordinate terms

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References

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  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “nahije”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 328

Further reading

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  • “nahijë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • “nahijë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “nahí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 303
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