Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (âbdest), from Persian آبدست (âbdast). Alternatively via Serbo-Croatian abdes given the loss of the -t.

Noun

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abdes m (definite abdesi)

  1. abdest

Further reading

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  • “abdes”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980
  • Newmark, L. (1999) “abdes”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary[2]
  • Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abdes)
  • abdes”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Latin

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Verb

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abdēs

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of abdō

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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See àbdest.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ǎbdes/
  • Hyphenation: ab‧des

Noun

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àbdes m (Cyrillic spelling а̀бдес)

  1. Alternative form of àbdest

Descendants

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  • ? Albanian: abdes