xhami

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جامع (cami), from Arabic جَامِع (jāmiʕ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dʒaˈmi]

Noun

xhami f (plural xhami, definite xhamia, definite plural xhamitë)

1. mosque

Declension

Declension of xhami

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	xhami	xhamia	xhami	xhamitë
accusative		xhaminë
dative	xhamie	xhamisë	xhamive	xhamive
ablative			xhamish

Further reading

• “xhami”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “xhami”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]