krahinë

Albanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian krȁjina (“region”) (compare Bulgarian крайна (krajna)),[1] from krȃj (“end, border; region”).[2] More at krah.

Noun

krahinë f (indefinite plural krahina, definite singular krahina, definite plural krahinat)

  1. region
  2. province
  3. countryside, rural area

References
  1. Xhelal Ylli, Das slawische Lehngut im Albanischen, vol. 1: Lehnwörter (Munich: Otto Sagner, 1997), 136.
  2. Gunnar Svane, Slavische Lehnwörter im Albanischen (Århus: Aarhus University Press, 1992), 205–6.
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