shtremb

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • shtrembër, (Standard)
  • shtramër, shtramt (Gheg)
  • shtremën, shtremt (Gheg)
  • sctrễmnii [ʃtɾɛ̃mniː], sctrễmt [ʃtɾɛ̃mt] (Gheg) [1]

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *štramba, close to Old Prussian strambo (“stubble”), Lithuanian strampas (“club, truncheon”), and Proto-Germanic *strambaz, in Norwegian dial, stramb (“strong smell”), Middle Low German stram (“strong, powerful”). Alternatively a derivative of Vulgar Latin *strambus, from Latin strabus, akin to Romanian strâmb.

Adjective

i shtremb (feminine plural të shtrembta)

  1. crooked, bent, askew, crosswise

Derived terms

References
  1. Fialuur i voghel Sccyp e ltinisct (Small Dictionary of Albanian and Latin), page 137, by P. Jak Junkut, 1895, Sckoder
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