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Rainbow in Northern Albania. In Albanian folk beliefs the rainbow is regarded as "the belt of Zoja Prenne". [1]Prende or Premte [note 1] is the dawn goddess, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, health and protector of women, in the Albanian pagan mythology. [4]
The Albanian word besa is an Indo-European cognate and shares similarities with the Classical Latin word fides.In Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, Latin fides took on the Christian meaning of 'faith' or '(religious) belief,' a sense that persists in modern Romance languages and was borrowed into Albanian as feja.
Albanian warrior dance in circle around fire (), drawing from the book Childe Harold's Pilgrimage written by Lord Byron in the early 19th century. Practiced for several hours with very short intervals, the dance gets new vigour from the words of the accompanying song that starts with a battle cry invoking war drums, and which is of a piece with the movement and usually changed only once or ...
Albanian folklore is the folk tradition of the Albanian people.Albanian traditions have been orally transmitted – through memory systems that have survived intact into modern times – down the generations and are still very much alive in the mountainous regions of Albania, Kosovo and western North Macedonia, as well as among the Arbëreshë in Italy and the Arvanites in Greece, and the ...
The phrases "the Beauty of the Sea" and "the Beauty of the Earth" are kept to refer to figures of Albanian folk beliefs and fairy tales, "the Beauty of the Sky" continues to be used in Albanian to refer to the monotheistic God. [20] [21] In central Albanian folklore, e Bukura e Dheut is the wife of Baba Tomor. [10]
Albanian: Shëndet (shuhn-det) "Health!" Faleminderit "Thank you" Shëndet paç "May you have health" Amharic: ይማርሽ (yimarish) for a female ይማርህ (yimarih) for a male "May God forgive you!" ያኑሪሽ (yanurish) for female ያኑርህ (yanurih) for male "May you live for long" Afrikaans: Gesondheid "Health!" Dankie "Thank you ...
In fact, it’s the rom-coms, bittersweet love stories, passionate kisses, happily-ever-afters and memorable love quotes from movies like “Jerry Maguire,” “The Holiday” and “Casablanca ...
Albanian culture or the culture of Albanians (Albanian: kultura shqiptare [kultuˈɾa ʃcipˈtaɾɛ]) is a term that embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements that are representative of ethnic Albanians, which implies not just Albanians of the country of Albania but also Albanians of Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro, where ethnic Albanians are a ...