fshat

Albanian

Alternative forms

• pshat

Etymology

It was linked by Çabej with Bushat and reconducted to an indoeuropean root. There also have been proposal of a borrowing from Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”) (whence modern φουσάτο (fousáto, “army unit; encampment”)), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”).^[1][2]

Noun

fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat)

1. (politics) village, especially as a unit of local government in Albania
2. rural area, countryside

Declension

Declension of fshat

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fshat	fshati	fshatra	fshatrat
accusative		fshatin
dative	fshati	fshatit	fshatrave	fshatrave
ablative			fshatrash

Coordinate terms

• katund, trevë
• vilajet, sanxhak, kaza, nahijë
• prefekturë, nënprefekturë, krahinë, bashki, komunë
• qark, rreth, lokalitet, lagje

Descendants

• → Aromanian: fsat
• → Romanian: sat, fsat — obsolete

References

1. Bonnet, Guillaume (1999) Les mots latins de l’albanais (Sémantiques) (in French), Paris: L’Harmattan, →ISBN, page 369
2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fshat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 104

Further reading

• “fshat”, 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]‎, 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “fshat”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎