Luftërave

Luftërave is an Albanian term used to denote wars in contexts where multiple conflicts are being referred to or discussed collectively. It is a grammatical form derived from the noun luftë (war) and appears in sentences and phrases that treat wars as a category or as a set of events.

In scholarly, historical, and journalistic writing, luftërave is found in encyclopedic entries, histories, treaties, and analyses that cover more than one conflict or discuss war as a broad phenomenon. The word is employed in neutral, descriptive language to discuss causes, conduct, consequences, international responses, and postwar reconstruction. As with many Albanian nouns, the specific form luftërave is determined by its grammatical role in the sentence, such as when it is governed by a preposition or used in a construct that requires a genitive or dative case.

Translations of luftërave into English depend on context. The term generally corresponds to “the wars” or to phrases indicating multiple conflicts, with the exact rendering driven by the surrounding grammar and the intended meaning in a given sentence. The word is widely understood in Albanian-language texts to refer to large-scale armed conflicts across history.

See also: Luftë; World War II (Lufta e Dytë Botërore); Civil war; History of Albania.