dhrim

Albanian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”), with the initial dh- probably deriving from an original compound (cf. dhjetë), from earlier *ndrim, from Proto-Albanian *ən-treima.

Noun

dhrim m (plural dhrima, definite dhrimi, definite plural dhrimat) (ethnography)

1. the first and last three days of March
2. the first twelve days of August, during which weather forecasts were made

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “dhrim”, 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) “dhrim”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[2]