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English translation: blood-owing family
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| Albanian to English translations [PRO] Law/Patents - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / hakmarrje | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Ledja United Kingdom Local time: 16:58 | ||||||
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| 4 | Perpetrators |
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Perpetrators Explanation: . |
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blood-owing family Explanation: According to Leonard Newmark's Alb-Eng dictionary, this is an old use - as it figures - and it can mean any of the slight variations below according to the context: 1.killer, avenger 2.culprit; guilty party However, since the parties (families) in a blood feud are referred to as "the family that has incurred blood" and "the family that owes blood", I came up with "blood-owing family" - not an established term in English, but pretty self-explanatory. Here are a couple of relevant examples in sentences from this link: http://www.ecoi.net/file_upload/1684_1243258524_http-www2-ir... "the use of specific rhetoric such as "being in blood" and "owing blood," "Individuals and representatives of the family that has incurred blood can attend this meeting under a truce (besa)." |
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Violator Explanation: Just another option you could consider, as well as offender. |
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