Similarities Between Arabic and Albanian

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Hi everyone. Thanks for checking out this video! I had a lot of fun making this video and it turned out amazing I love it! For the people who’re saying these words are loanwords in Albanian. You guys are correct. These words came to us from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish. They are not purely Albanian words but they are used in Albania along with many other loanwords. -Frenkli

As a non-native Hindi speaker, I was able to figure out Ilaaj (Treatment), Waqt (Time), Raahat (Relief/Respite/Comfort), Qila (Castle/Tower), and Jaeb (Pocket)! Greetings from Bangalore, South India 🙂

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They are not similarities but loanwords. There is no any similarity between Indo-European Albanian and Afro-Asiatic Arabic.

I've been to Albania twice. 🇦🇱 lovely place

I love the video it was wonderful and hopefully we can see Moroccan dialect in this channe Frenkli you did such an amazing job keep going my friend 👏🏼❤️

As a Turkish, I can confirm that we use the all the words they say, the way we pronounce them is a little bit more similar to Albanian version.

That's super interesting! Great video

I am Turkish and I understood all words. I think Ottoman Empire has been a bridge between Albania and Egypt. Because there is a lot of words come from Arabic.

Albanian is such a Mysterious language and so unique 😍

Great video guys

I guessed like 80% of the words because they exist in Bulgarian as well 😊 As for the word kusur, in Bulgarian it means a disadvantage/shortcoming/deficiency but it's used only colloquially. I wonder if it's used with this meaning in another language.

Some of them can be found in modern greek vocabulary via the turkish language like "καφάσι" (kafasi=basket, crate), "κουσούρι" (kusuri=bad habit), χαντάκι (handaki=ditch), "μπακάλης" (bakalis=grocer).

Wow! I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while

Good to know about the common words between Albanian and Arabic

I'm an American born Albanian that grew up simultaneously learning Albanian and English growing up (an early 20th century variety from the south) as a child and have always retained it to varying extents though I recognize a very good number of the words compared, some are considerably different in meaning from how we used them at home. Are there varieties of Shqip that use 'rehat' in the sense of 'to leave something or someone alone'? Though I could use it in the sense of 'comfortable, "une jam/s'jam rehat" it was more far more common for me to use as it in the sense of "lerr e rehat" leave it alone or "lerr ai/ajo/mua rehat" leave him/her/it alone.

"Zarf" is a word I read about when I was a kid, meaning "a handled container for a handleless coffee cup". I can see how "envelope" could be related. "Jayb" was involved in a mistranslation that led to the mathematical term "sine". It sounds similar to the Sanskrit for "bowstring", which was the original term for the trig function.

Interesting 👏👏👏🙏

GREAT JOB of making these videos. Most of the words are also found in Urdu...