aksham

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آخشام‎ (ahşam), whence Turkish akşam.

Noun

akshám m (indefinite plural aksháme, definite singular akshámi, definite plural akshámet)

  1. (archaic) evening, sunset
    Synonym: mbrë́mje
  2. (Islam) evening prayer, isha
    Near-synonym: mbrëmjesóre (“vespers”)

Declension
Declension of aksham
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative aksham akshame akshami akshamet
accusative akshamin
dative akshami akshameve akshamit akshamevet
ablative akshamesh

References
  • “aksham” on fjalorthi.com
  • aksham in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org
  • Bufli, Gjorgji; Luciano, Rocchi (2021), “aksham”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 34
  • Giacomo Jungg (1895), “akscam”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct (in Italian)
  • Leonard Newmark (2005), “aksham”, in www.seelrc.org
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