abdes

Albanian

Alternative forms

• avdes

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آبدست (âbdest), from Persian آبدست (âbdast). Alternatively via Serbo-Croatian abdes given the loss of the -t.

Noun

abdes m (definite abdesi)

1. abdest

Further reading

• “abdes”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Newmark, L. (1999) “abdes”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]
• Oda Buchholz, Wilfried Fiedler, Gerda Uhlisch (2000) Langenscheidt Handwörterbuch Albanisch, Langenscheidt Verlag, →ISBN, page 27 (abdes)
• “abdes”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006

Latin

Verb

abdēs

1. second-person singular future active indicative of abdō

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

See àbdest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎbdes/
• Hyphenation: ab‧des

Noun

àbdes m (Cyrillic spelling а̀бдес)

1. Alternative form of àbdest

Descendants

• →? Albanian: abdes