xhep

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish جیب (ceb, cep), from Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “pocket”).

Noun

xhep m (plural xhepa, definite xhepi, definite plural xhepat)

1. pocket

   Synonyms: shqek, shqyekë, shqeksë

Declension

Declension of xhep

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	xhep	xhepi	xhepa	xhepat
accusative		xhepin
dative	xhepi	xhepit	xhepave	xhepave
ablative			xhepash

Further reading

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