çaj

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaj/

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چای (çay).

çaj m (plural çajra, definite çaji, definite plural çajrat)

1. tea
2. reception for tea and desserts
3. (uncountable) the tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
4. dried leaves, buds, or other parts of various plants or trees used to prepare tea

• çaj mali (“ironwort”)
• çaj bjeshke (“sweet marjoram”)
• çaj kamomili (“chamomile”)
• çaj rusi (“black tea”)
• çaj i gjelbër (“green tea”)

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 𐬯𐬗𐬌𐬥𐬛𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (scindaiieⁱti)).

• çanj, shaj — North Gheg

çaj (aorist çava, participle çarë)

1. to split, cleave

   Synonyms: cakis, pres

2. to cut into flesh with a sharp object

   çau dorën ― he cut his hand

3. to slaughter, to depredate, to slay using teeth
4. to cut through, to cut across

   çanë rrethimin ― they cut through the encirclement

5. (colloquial, figurative) to disunite, to divide

   Synonym: përçaj

6. to cause a sharp pain (third-person)

   Synonyms: ther, dhemb

7. (figurative) to be strongly effective, skilled in a certain topic or task

   të çan në matematikë ― is very good at math

8. (figurative) to celebrate or make a statement with pomposity
9. to stab someone with a knife, to cause death by stabbing
10. (figurative) to densely or fully occupy a place, to swarm

    të çanin mushkonjat ― was full of mosquitos

• shaj

• “çaj”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “çaj”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]