kreshnik

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • krashnik
  • krazhnik
  • kërzhnik

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian krajišnik ("borderer, frontiersman"), from dialectal Kosovo Serbian kraešnik ("hero in the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors").[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɾɛʃˈnik/

Noun

kreshnik m (plural kreshnikë, definite kreshniku, definite plural kreshnikët)

  1. hero in the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors
  2. champion

Declension
Declension of kreshnik
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative kreshnik kreshnikë kreshniku kreshnikët
accusative kreshnikun
dative kreshniku kreshnikëve kreshnikut kreshnikëvet
ablative kreshnikësh

Derived terms
  • kreshnike
  • kreshniki

References
  1. Omari, Anila (2012), "vraç", in Marrëdhëniet gjuhësore shqiptaro-serbe, Tirana, Albania: Kristalina KH, page 317-318
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “kreshnik”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
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