çarçaf

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف (çarşaf).

Pronunciation

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

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