qime

• qyme — dialectal
• qym m — Gheg, dialectal
• çymbe — Borgo Erizzo
• gjime — obsolete, Gheg
• qim, qimë, qimbë — dialectal
• kime, kimë, kjymë — northern Gheg, dialectal

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 (“plague”). See the latter for other Balkan cognates.

• IPA^(key): /ˈcime/
• Rhymes: -ime

qime f (plural qime, definite qimja, definite plural qimet)

1. hair
   1. a hair (single filament)

      Synonyms: fill, (of the head specifically) flok

   2. hair (totality of filaments covering the skin); fur
      • 1635, Frang Bardhi, Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum, page 215:

        Vcucu ghimene nderrõ, ma vessne se harron.

        [Uku{ku} gjimen' e ndërron, ma vesnë s'e harron.]

        The wolf changes the fur, but does not forget the vice.

   3. beard and moustache, facial hair of man (specifically)

      S'i ka dalë qimja ende. ― His beard hasn't started growing yet.

   4. thread, strand, filament of wool

      Synonym: fije

2. Technical senses:
   1. (botany) root hair
   2. (anatomy) villus
   3. hairspring
3. Deseases:
   1. roundworm, nematode (esp. Enterobius)

      Synonym: qime e gjallë

   2. roundworm infestation

      Synonym: qimëz

   3. gangrene

      Synonyms: qimëz, gangrenë

      Të hëngrët qimja! ― May you get grangrene!

   4. (dialectal) cancer

      Synonym: kancer

• FGJSSH (1980), pages 1610f.: “qím/e,~ja”
• DPEWA, “qíme”; Topalli (2017), page 1221: “qime”; Papahagi (1974), pages 449f.: “čĭúmă¹”
• Miklosich AF, vol. 2, page 16: “206. coma”; Meyer (1891), pages 226f.: “ḱimɛ”; Orel (1998), page 361: “qime”
• Mann (1948), page 417b: “qime”
• Tagliavini (1937), page 98: “čümbe”
• Leotti (1916), page 107: “kjime”; Weigand (1914), page 44a: “kjíme”
• Kristoforidhi (1904), page 188: “κϳίμε-ϳα”
• Jungg (1895), page 19b: “cȣm”, “cȣme”; Bashkimi (1908), page 68b: “cym”, “cymé”
• Rossi (1875), page 138ab: “chim, a”, page 177a: “ciȣ̀m, i”, pages 674f.: “kim, a”, page 677b: “kiȣm, a”
• Bardhi (1635), page 98: “pilus — chime”, page 145: “scorteus — nlessci, oò nchimess”, page 215