Albanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیرك (çeyrek),[1][2][3] through the dialectal variant çerek.[3][4]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

çerek m (plural çerekë)

  1. quarter, fourth, 14
  2. (archaic) Synonym of çerekje

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891), “tšereḱe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 446
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017), “çerek”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 335
  3. 3.0 3.1 Bufli, G.; Rocchi, L. (2021), “çerek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 108
  4. ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “çerek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 937

Further reading edit

  • “çerek”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 255