nahijë

Albanian

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Alternative forms

• nahije — standard
• nahi

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ناحیه (nâhiye), from Arabic نَاحِيَة (nāḥiya).^[1]

Noun

nahijë f (plural nahíje, definite nahíja, definite plural nahíjet) (colloquial, regional)

1. region, frontier, district

   Synonyms: krahinë, rrethinë, ngastër

   nahija e Shkodrës ― Shkodra region

2. (politics, historical) nahiyah, particularly as a former third-level administrative division of Albania.

Declension

Declension of nahijë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nahijë	nahija	nahije	nahijet
accusative		nahijën
dative	nahije	nahijës	nahijeve	nahijeve
ablative			nahijesh

Coordinate terms

• vilajet, sanxhak, kaza, fshat

References

1. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “nahije”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 328

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
• “nahijë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “nahí”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 303