shqa

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • shkja

Etymology

From Late Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Byzantine Greek σκλάβος (sklábos, “Slav”) or Σκλάβος (Sklábos).[1] Compare Romanian șcheau (“Bulgarian, (South) Slav”), șchiau, Aromanian shcljau. Doublet of skllav (“slave”), a later borrowing.

Noun

shqa m (plural shqa, definite shqau, definite plural shqetë)

  1. a Bulgarian (or generally any person of South Slavic ethnicity)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shqa”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 432
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