fustan

See also: fustán

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • fustane f (dialectal)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فستان‎ (fistan, fustan).[1]

Noun

fustan m (indefinite plural fustane)

  1. dress (women's item of clothing)
  2. fustanella
    Synonym: fustanellë
  3. (figuratively, colloquial) female. woman or girl
    Synonyms: grua, vajzë
  4. (regional) skirt (of a woman)
    Synonym: fund

Declension
Declension of fustan
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative fustan fustane fustani fustanet
accusative fustanin
dative fustani fustaneve fustanit fustanevet
ablative fustanesh

Derived terms

References
  1. Meyer, Gustav (1891), “fustán”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, page 115

Further reading
  • “fustan”, in FGjSSh: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
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