bishtajë

Albanian

Etymology

Uncertain, but cognate to Romanian păstaie (“pod”), Aromanian pãstalji (“pod”):

• Possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pī̆stālia (whence also the (A)Romanian words), from Late Latin pī̆stāre (“to pound”), frequentative of Latin pīnsāre (“to stamp, pound, crush”), but this is semantically questionable.
• An alternative proposal is from bisht (“tail”) +‎ -ajë.
• Finally, may be of the same Iranian origin as Latin pistacium (“pistacchio”), Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion), βιστάκιον (bistákion), Persian بسته (boste, “nut”), Sanskrit बुस्त (busta, “husk or shell of fruit”).

Noun

bishtajë f (plural bishtaja, definite bishtaja, definite plural bishtajat)

1. pod (of beans)

Declension

Declension of bishtajë

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bishtajë	bishtaja	bishtaja	bishtajat
accusative		bishtajën
dative	bishtaje	bishtajës	bishtajave	bishtajave
ablative			bishtajash

Further reading

• “bishtajë”, 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, L. (1999) “bishtajë”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]