{"word":"zi","entries":[{"pos":"adj","senses":[{"gloss":"black (of colour)","lang":"en","source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"dark, as opposed to a lighter colour","lang":"en","examples":[{"text":"bukë e zezë","english":"black bread"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"dirty (of water); built for dirty water","lang":"en","examples":[{"text":"ujëra të zeza","english":"dirty water"},{"text":"kanale të zeza","english":"dirty water canals"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"unfortunate, wretched; desolate, gloomy","lang":"en","source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"evil, bad","lang":"en","examples":[{"text":"zemër e zezë","english":"black heart"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"}],"sources":["en-wiktionary"],"ipa":["/ˈzi/"],"etymology":"First attested in the 17th century in this form, already 16th in its now obsolete feminine form e zeshkë (“black”). The plural të zinj is recent, built on analogy of other masculine nouns ending in stressed /-ˈi/, and supplanted the earlier të zez. The irregular paradigm may reflect e zezë f sg < *gʷed(ʰ)yā, të zez m pl < *gʷed(ʰ)yoi, zi f (“mourning”, noun) < *gʷed(ʰ)íyā.\nHas been compared to Pro","forms":[{"form":"i zi","tags":["canonical"]},{"form":"e zezë","tags":["feminine"]},{"form":"të zinj","tags":["masculine","plural"]},{"form":"të zeza","tags":["feminine","plural"]}]},{"pos":"noun","senses":[{"gloss":"black person","lang":"en","source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"unfortunate, wretched, desolate person","lang":"en","source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"black (player with the black chess pieces)","lang":"en","source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"black (colour), blackness","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"mourning (sorrow; clothes)","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"gloom, gloominess","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"great trouble, suffering","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"Used to reinforce interrogative and exclamative sentences.","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"mourning (sorrow for someone's death)","lang":"en","tags":["feminine","uncountable"],"examples":[{"text":"bëj zi për","english":"to mourn"},{"text":"e chξeh {v}ine tane, endeh ћaɛe-//mend","english":"and turn our mourning into joy"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"mourning (clothes)","lang":"en","tags":["feminine","uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"great misfortune","lang":"en","tags":["feminine","uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"famine, dearth, esp. scarcity of bread","lang":"en","tags":["feminine","uncountable"],"examples":[{"text":"zi buke","english":"bread famine"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"great greed for something, esp. food","lang":"en","tags":["feminine","uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"}],"sources":["en-wiktionary"],"ipa":["/ˈzi/"],"etymology":"First attested in the 17th century in this form, already 16th in its now obsolete feminine form e zeshkë (“black”). The plural të zinj is recent, built on analogy of other masculine nouns ending in stressed /-ˈi/, and supplanted the earlier të zez. The irregular paradigm may reflect e zezë f sg < *gʷed(ʰ)yā, të zez m pl < *gʷed(ʰ)yoi, zi f (“mourning”, noun) < *gʷed(ʰ)íyā.\nHas been compared to Pro","forms":[{"form":"i zi","tags":["canonical","masculine"]},{"form":"të zinj","tags":["plural"]},{"form":"i ziu","tags":["definite"]},{"form":"të zinjtë","tags":["definite","plural"]},{"form":"të zi","tags":["canonical","neuter"]},{"form":"të zitë","tags":["definite"]},{"form":"zia","tags":["definite"]}],"synonyms":["zezak","e zezë"]},{"pos":"adv","senses":[{"gloss":"in black","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"examples":[{"text":"e ngjeu zi","english":"it turned black"}],"source":"en-wiktionary"},{"gloss":"very badly, wrongly, unkindly","lang":"en","tags":["uncountable"],"source":"en-wiktionary"}],"sources":["en-wiktionary"],"ipa":["/ˈzi/"],"etymology":"First attested in the 17th century in this form, already 16th in its now obsolete feminine form e zeshkë (“black”). The plural të zinj is recent, built on analogy of other masculine nouns ending in stressed /-ˈi/, and supplanted the earlier të zez. The irregular paradigm may reflect e zezë f sg < *gʷed(ʰ)yā, të zez m pl < *gʷed(ʰ)yoi, zi f (“mourning”, noun) < *gʷed(ʰ)íyā.\nHas been compared to Pro"}],"sources":["en-wiktionary","ai"],"description":{"text":"Që ka ngjyrën e qymyrit; edhe: i trishtë.","source":"ai"},"frequency":18044,"wikipediaCount":10620,"url":"https://fjalorishqip.org/fjala/zi/","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","sameMeaning":[{"word":"zezak","relation":"listed"},{"word":"zezë","relation":"same"},{"word":"zymtë","relation":"same"},{"word":"xhubletë","relation":"same"},{"word":"pis","relation":"other"}],"attribution":["Wiktionary (English edition), Albanian entries — CC BY-SA 4.0 (and GFDL)","Përshkrime shqip me ndihmë të AI-së / Albanian descriptions written with AI help — CC BY-SA 4.0"]}