muhaxhir

Albanian

Alternative forms

• muaxher

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مهاجر (muhacir), from Arabic مُهَاجِر (muhājir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muhaˈd͡ʒiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: mu‧ha‧xhír

Noun

muhaxhir m (plural muhaxhirë, definite muhaxhiri, definite plural muhaxhirët)

1. (also adjective, colloquial) refugee: most commonly used for Albanian communities which were expelled by the Serb Army mainly from the sanjak of Niš but also from other Balkan countries during the 19th and 20th century

   Synonym: refugjat

Further reading

• “muhaxhir”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “muhaxhir”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006