kafshë

Albanian

Etymology

From Dalmatian [Term?] (cf. Vegliot kawsa ‘thing’), 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
  2. (figuratively) idiot

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • kafshëror
  • kashelashë
  • kafshar
  • kafsharak
  • kafsheroj
  • kafshësi
  • kafshësor
  • kafshëz
  • kafshor

References

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