Etymology

Peja

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Today it means: The fourth largest city in Kosovo, and the seat of its eponymous municipality and district. Full definition →

Albanian Peja ← Serbo-Croatian peć
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  1. Serbo-Croatian · derived frompeć“furnace”
  2. Albanian · borrowed fromPeja
  3. English todayPeja

Borrowed from Albanian Peja, definite nominative of Pejë. Ultimately from Serbo-Croatian peć (“furnace”), which probably refers to the hermitaries in the caves of nearby Rugova Canyon formerly inhabited by Serbian Orthodox monks.

Words from the same roots

Serbo-Croatianpeć all →

Peć

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.