vapë

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Romance, akin to Italian vapa (“flame”), Romanian văpaie (“flame”),[1][2] although the Italian term is a poetic hapax found in rhyming context,[3] while the Romanian one is actually often derived from Albanian.[4] Alternatively compare Italian afa (“sultriness”), possibly ultimately from a Paleo-Balkan *āpʰā, of which vapë would be the regular Tosk outcome.

Noun

vapë f (definite vapa) (originally Tosk, Arbëresh)

  1. sultriness, warmth, heat (of weather)
    Synonyms: ngrohtësi, bulçim
  2. heat (in the body)
    Synonym: nxehtësi

Derived terms
  • vapëherë
  • vapësirë
  • vapët

Adjective

vapë

  1. (archaic) hot
    Synonyms: vapët, nxehtë

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891) “vāpε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 463
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vapë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 494
  3. Monte, Andrea (c. 1200) Ahi lasso doloroso, più non posso (in Italian), lines 18, 22: “lo volere, ove l'aggio, fior non cape. […] tenemi in foco con ardenti vape.”
  4. văpaie in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Further reading
  • “vapë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
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