fshat

== Albanian == === Alternative forms === pshat === Etymology === It was linked by Çabej with Bushat and reconducted to an Indo-European root. There also have been proposal of a borrowing from Byzantine Greek φοσσᾶτον (phossâton), φουσσᾶτον (phoussâton, “encampment”) (whence modern φουσάτο (fousáto, “army unit; encampment”)), from Late Latin fossātum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”). === Noun === fshat m (plural fshatra, definite fshati, definite plural fshatrat) (politics) village, especially as a unit of local government in Albania rural area, countryside ==== Declension ==== ==== Coordinate terms ==== katund, trevë vilajet, sanxhak, kaza, nahijë prefekturë, nënprefekturë, krahinë, bashki, komunë qark, rreth, lokalitet, lagje ==== Descendants ==== → Aromanian: fsat → Romanian: sat, fsat — obsolete === References === === Further reading === “fshat”, 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 Newmark, Leonard (1999), “fshat”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎[2]