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qime

Pronunciation: /ˈcime/

“qime” is an Albanian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a hair (single filament)
  2. hair (totality of filaments covering the skin); fur
  3. beard and moustache, facial hair of man (specifically)
  4. thread, strand, filament of wool
  5. root hair
  6. villus
  7. hairspring
  8. roundworm, nematode (esp. Enterobius)
  9. roundworm infestation
  10. gangrene
  11. cancer

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “sprout of a plant”), likely through Latin cȳma (“sprout of cabbage”). Compare Aromanian ciumã (“tuft, flock of wool”). Traditionally connected to Latin coma (“hair of the head”), compare Italian chioma. The usage of the term for various diseases, for which compare also qimëz, is shared with Aromanian ciumã, giumcã (“swelling, tumor”), Romanian ciumă…

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