arqitë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *orkyta (“broom, kind of willow”). Compare Serbo-Croatian rakita and Bulgarian ракита (rakita).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɾˈcitə/
  • Rhymes: -itə
  • Hyphenation: ar‧qí‧të

Noun

arqitë m (plural arqita, definite arqita, definite plural arqitat) (regional)

  1. (botany) weeping willow, a willow with very pendulous twigs, of cultivars or hybrids of Salix babylonica
    Synonym: shelg i butë
  2. willow rod used for basket weaving
  3. twig
  4. osier, withy (Salix spp.)
    Synonym: thupër
  5. (botany) chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus)
    Synonyms: marenë, kunupicë; see also Thesaurus:marenë

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “arqitë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 10

Further reading

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
  • “arqitë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “arqitë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 11
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