çaj

See also: caj and čaj

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (çay).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tʃaj]

Noun

çaj m

  1. tea

Etymology 2

From older variant çanj, from Proto-Albanian *štšenja, from Proto-Indo-European *sked-n-ie/o, from *sked- (“to cut, hack”) (compare Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi), Avestan scindayeiti).

Alternative forms
  • çanj, shaj (North Gheg)

Pronunciation

Verb

çaj (first-person singular past tense çava, participle çarë)

  1. to split, cleave
  2. to smash, batter
  3. to chop (to bits), hack
Derived terms
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