kafshë

Albanian

Etymology

From Dalmatian [Term?] (compare Dalmatian kawsa (“thing”)) or another Eastern Romance or Vulgar Latin source, from Latin causa.[1] As in the source language, the word originally meant "thing," but it later shifted to "animal" by influence from gjë (“thing”), specifically gjë e gjallë (“animal”), literally "living thing".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaːfʃ/

Noun

kafshë f (indefinite plural kafshë, definite singular kafsha, definite plural kafshët)

  1. animal
    Synonym: shtazë
  2. (figurative) idiot

Declension
Declension of kafshë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative kafshë kafshë kafsha kafshët
accusative kafshën
dative kafshe kafshëve kafshës kafshëvet
ablative kafshësh

Derived terms
  • kafshëror
  • kashelashë
  • kafshar
  • kafsharak
  • kafsheroj
  • kafshësi
  • kafshësor
  • kafshëz
  • kafshoj
  • kafshor

References
  1. Guillaume Bonnet, Les mots latins de l’albanais (Paris–Montreal: L’Harmattan, 1998), 109.
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