hasm

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • asm, hasëm — archaic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خصم (hasm, hasım, “enemy”),[1] from Arabic خَصْم (ḵaṣm).

Noun

hasm m (plural hasmë, definite hasmi)

  1. enemy in a blood feud
    Synonym: gjakës
  2. (colloquial) enemy
    Synonym: armik

Declension

Declension of hasm
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hasm hasmi hasmë hasmët
accusative hasmin
dative hasmi hasmit hasmëve hasmëve
ablative hasmësh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “hasm”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 194

Further reading

  • “hasm”, 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
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