çiflig

Albanian

Alternative forms

• çiflik — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفتلك (çiftlik).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iɡ

Noun

çiflig m (plural çifligje, definite çifligu) (now historical)

1. manor, estate

   drejtoj një çiflig ― run a manor

2. manor house

Derived terms

• çifligar
• çifligsahibi

 

References

• “çiflí/g,~gu”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 258b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çiflik”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 111
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “çiflik […] çiflig”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 59b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “tšift”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 447