çarçaf

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف (çarşaf).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaɾˈt͡ʃaf/
  • Rhymes: -af

Noun

çarçaf m (plural çarçafë)

  1. sheet, bedsheet
  2. niqab (veil of Muslim women)
  3. shroud, winding cloth
    Synonym: qefin
    1. (Christianity) the Holy Shroud
  4. (vulgar, derogatory) very long text

Declension

Declension of çarçaf
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative çarçaf çarçafi çarçafë çarçafët
accusative çarçafin
dative çarçafi çarçafit çarçafëve çarçafëve
ablative çarçafësh

References

  • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980, page 245b
  • Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “çarçaf”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 102
  • Mann, S. E. (1948), “çar […] -çaf”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 55b
  • Meyer, G. (1891), “tšartšáf”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 445
  • Rossi, F. (1875), “ciarciàf”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 144b
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