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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف (çarşaf).
Pronunciation
Noun
çarçaf m (plural çarçafë)
- sheet, bedsheet
- niqab (veil of Muslim women)
- shroud, winding cloth
- Synonym: qefin
- (Christianity) the Holy Shroud
- (vulgar, derogatory) very long text
References
- “çarçaf”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 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