bagazh

Albanian

Etymology

Relatively new borrowing from French bagage, from Old French bague (“pack, bundle”) with the suffix -age.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [baɡɑʒ]

Noun

bagazh m (plural bagazhe, definite bagazhi, definite plural bagazhet)

  1. luggage, baggage
  2. trunk
  3. (figurative, literary) the entirety of the knowledge and ideas someone has accumulated over the years on a specific subject (political, theoretic or scientific)

Declension

Declension of bagazh
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bagazh bagazhi bagazhe bagazhet
accusative bagazhin
dative bagazhi bagazhit bagazheve bagazheve
ablative bagazhesh

References

  1. ^ Topalli, Kolec (2017), “bagázh”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in Albanian), Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 155

Further reading

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