bisht

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Gulf Arabic بِشْت.

Noun

bisht (plural bishts)

1. A large flowing Arab cloak.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *būšta, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”) (compare English bush, Greek φύση (fýsi, “nature”), Armenian բույս (buys, “plant”)). Others, however, argue for a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European substratum, drawing parallels to Basque buztan and Romanian buștean.

Noun

bisht m (plural bishta)

1. (anatomy) tail
2. (orthography) cedilla

Declension

Declension of bisht

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bisht	bishti	bishta	bishtat
accusative		bishtin
dative	bishti	bishtit	bishtave	bishtave
ablative			bishtash

or

Declension of bisht

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bisht	bishti	bishtra	bishtrat
accusative		bishtin
dative	bishti	bishtit	bishtrave	bishtrave
ablative			bishtrash

Derived terms

• (plants) bishtajë f, bishtdac m, bishtdungë f, bishtdhelpër f, bisht daci m, bisht gomari m, bisht miu m, bishtmi m, bishtadhizë f
• bishtalec m, bisht pëllumbi m, bisht kali m, bisht dhelpre, bisht gjeli m, bisht gjarpri m, (hardhucë f), bishtagan m (pilivesë f), bishtagyp m, bishtagjatë m, bishtagjel m, bishtdurde, bishtpërpjetë, bishtcakërr, bishtra-bishtra, bishtbardhë, bishtcub, bishtcubel, bishtcung, bishtçatall, bishtgërshërë, bishtdredhur

Related terms

• bimë, bij, mbij

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[2], 1980
• “bisht”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006