kureshtje

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kureshti
• kureshtë, kureshte — earlier forms
• kuresht m — archaic

Etymology

Perhaps a literary coinage, from kur është? (“when is it?”), as a phono-semantic matching of Italian curiosità. Later suffixed with -je.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɾeʃtje/
• Rhymes: -eʃtje

Noun

kureshtje f (plural kureshtje, definite kureshtja, definite plural kureshtjet)

1. curiosity

   Synonyms: kërshëri, merak

2. (derogatory) nosiness, meddlesomeness

Declension

Declension of kureshtje

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kureshtje	kureshtja	kureshtje	kureshtjet
accusative		kureshtjen
dative	kureshtjeje	kureshtjes	kureshtjeve	kureshtjeve
ablative			kureshtjesh

Derived terms

• i kureshtëm
• kureshtar
• kureshti

 

References

• “kuréshtj/e,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 923b
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “kuresht”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 229a
• Çabej, E. (2014) “kureshtí”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes V: K–M, Tirana, page 177b
• Boissin, Henri (1977) “L'expressivité en albanais”, in Akten des Internationalen albanologischen Kolloquiums Innsbruck 1972 (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft; 41), Innsbruck: AMOE, page 432 of 428–432