bëj

See also: bej

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • bâj (Gheg), bënj (Cham, Arvanite, Arbëreshë)

Etymology

From archaic and dialectal bënj ‘to make appear’, from Proto-Albanian *banja, from *bʰh₂-nio-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘shine’ (compare Greek φαίνομαι (faínomai) ‘to seem, appear’).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bəj/

Verb

bëj (first-person singular past tense bëra, participle bërë)

  1. to do
  2. to make
  3. (dialectal, old) to appear, make an appearance

Conjugation

Derived terms

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