zabel

See also: Zabel

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), and modern Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance"). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaˈbɛl/

Noun

zabel m (plural zabele, definite zabeli, definite plural zabelet)

  1. grove
    Synonyms: korije, prozhëm

Declension

Declension of zabel
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative zabel zabeli zabele zabelet
accusative zabelin
dative zabeli zabelit zabeleve zabeleve
ablative zabelesh

References

  1. ^ Omari, Anila (2012), "zabel", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 320-321

Further reading

  • “zabel”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
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