vasile
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Albanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Greek βασιλιάς (vasiliás).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -e
Noun[edit]
vasile m (definite vasileu) (Arbëresh)
- king
- Synonym: mbret
- 1866, Demetrio Camarda, Appendice al saggio di Grammatologia comparata sulla lingua albanese, page 168:
- Πeρσὲ, οὔ θάσςe, πeρσὲ, / Ἰ μάδι βασιλέ / Οὐ bούρε dϳάλe;
- [Përse, u thashë, përse, / i madhi vasile / u bure djalë?]
- Why, I said, why, O Great King, You became a boy?