kazmë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kazëm

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قازمه (kazma).

Noun

kazmë f (plural kazma, definite kazma, definite plural kazmat)

1. pickaxe, mattock

Further reading

• “kazmë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kazmë”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 260