nofkë

Albanian

Etymology

From South Slavic *novъka ‘new (name)’; compare Serbo-Croatian Novka (woman's first name).[1]

Noun

nofkë f (indefinite plural nofka, definite singular nofka, definite plural nofkat)

  1. nickname

References
  1. Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 300–1.
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