qamet

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • kiamet — Standard Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قیامت (kıyamet, “doomsday; great disaster”).

Noun

qamet m (plural qametë)

  1. great misfortune, disaster, calamity
    U bë qameti.
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  2. (religion) end of the world, apocalypse;

References
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kiamet”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 264
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