sheh

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شیخ (şeyh, “head of a religious order”),[1][2][3][4][5] through a monophthongised dialectal variant.[n 1][5]

Noun

sheh m (plural shehlerë or (archaic) sheha)

  1. head of a Muslim religious group. sheik

Derived terms

Notes
  1. Attested as scech in an Italian-Turkish glossary from 1533 and as seh in a Latin-Turkish glossary from Hungary from 1672.[6]

References
  1. Jungg, G. (1895) “sceh”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 126
  2. Mann, S. E. (1948) “sheh”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 470
  3. Boretzky, N. (1976) Wörterbuch der albanischen Turzismen (Der türkische Einfluss auf das Albanische; 2) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 123
  4. Topalli, K. (2017) “sheh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1374
  5. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sheh”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 445
  6. Rocchi, L. (2007) “şeh”, in Ricerche sulla lingua osmanlı del XVI secolo. Il corpus lessicale turco del manoscritto fiorentino di Filippo Argenti (1533) (in Italian), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, page 229

Further reading
  • “sheh”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1822
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