çakall
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), ultimately from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editçakall m (plural çakaj, definite çakalli, definite plural çakajt)
- (zoology) jackal
- (figurative, derogatory) rogue, scoundrel; blood-sucking or insatiable man
- (Tosk) dragon
Declension
editDeclension of çakall
References
edit- “çakall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çakall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 98
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “çakáll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 54
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- Albanian terms borrowed from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian terms derived from Ottoman Turkish
- Albanian terms derived from Persian
- Albanian terms derived from Sanskrit
- Albanian 2-syllable words
- Albanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Albanian lemmas
- Albanian nouns
- Albanian masculine nouns
- sq:Zoology
- Albanian derogatory terms
- Tosk Albanian
- sq:Canids