Shkeljes

Shkeljes is an Albanian noun used in formal and legal contexts to denote a violation or infringement of rules, rights, or procedures. It is closely related to the noun shkelje, which also means violation, and appears in various inflected forms depending on syntactic role. The term derives from the verb shkel, meaning to tread on or to violate; the noun sense extends to breaches of law, contracts, or normative obligations.

In legal, regulatory, and human rights discourse, shkeljes appears in phrases that specify what is violated and the relevant standard or authority. It is employed across civil, criminal, and administrative domains, as well as in international reporting and compliance contexts. The word is commonly paired with references to violations of laws, rights, or procedural rules, though the exact phrasing varies with grammar.

Translations into English typically render shkeljes as "violation" or "infringement." The term is used to characterize unlawful or improper conduct in statutes, court documents, policy analyses, and scholarly writing. It helps distinguish breaches of obligation from other forms of wrongdoing by emphasizing the act of violating established norms or standards.

See also: Shkelje; Law in Albania; Human rights in Albania.