krahinë

Albanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian krȁjina (“region”) (compare Bulgarian крайна (krajna)),[1] from krȃj (“end, border; region”).[2] More at krah.

Noun

krahinë f (plural krahina, definite krahina, definite plural krahinat)

  1. region
  2. (politics) province, particularly
  3. (historical) a former administrative division of Albania
  4. countryside, rural area

Declension
Declension of krahinë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative krahinë krahina krahina krahinat
accusative krahinën
dative krahine krahinave krahinës krahinavet
ablative krahinash

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References
  1. Xhelal Ylli, Das slawische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 136.
  2. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Århus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 205–6.
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