vapë
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Albanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- vohë — Old Tosk
Etymology[edit]
Possibly borrowed from Romance, akin to Italian vapa (“flame”), Romanian văpaie (“flame”),[1][2] although the Italian term is a poetic hapax found in rhyming context,[3] while the Romanian one is actually often derived from Albanian.[4] Alternatively compare Italian afa (“sultriness”), possibly ultimately from a Paleo-Balkan *āpʰā, of which vapë would be the regular Tosk outcome.
Noun[edit]
vapë f (definite vapa) (originally Tosk, Arbëresh)
- sultriness, warmth, heat (of weather)
- heat (in the body)
- Synonym: nxehtësi
Derived terms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
vapë
References[edit]
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “vāpε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, , page 463
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vapë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 494
- ^ Monte, Andrea (c. 1200) Ahi lasso doloroso, più non posso (in Italian), lines 18, 22: “lo volere, ove l'aggio, fior non cape. […] tenemi in foco con ardenti vape.”
- ^ văpaie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Further reading[edit]
- “vapë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980