zabel

See also: Zabel

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Slavic language, compare Old Church Slavonic забѣль (zabělĭ) ("enclosed forest"), and modern Serbo-Croatian zabijeliti ("to whiten, to mark a tree by cutting its bark"), used in Dušan's Code as ("mark a tree by cutting its bark to show forbidden entrance"). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bělъ (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zaˈbɛl/

Noun

zabel m (plural zabele, definite zabeli, definite plural zabelet)

1. grove

   Synonyms: korije, prozhëm

Declension

Declension of zabel

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	zabel	zabeli	zabele	zabelet
accusative		zabelin
dative	zabeli	zabelit	zabeleve	zabeleve
ablative			zabelesh

Further reading

• “zabel”, 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