çifçi

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Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dialectal Ottoman Turkish چفتجی (çiftçi).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃifˈt͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -t͡ʃi
  • Hyphenation: çif‧çí

Noun

çifçi m (plural çifçinj, definite çifçiu, definite plural çifçinjtë)

  1. (historical) sharecropper, tenant farmer, serf (mostly under the feudal system)
    Synonyms: pendar, çifligar, bujkrob

Declension

Declension of çifçi
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative çifçi çifçiu çifçinj çifçinjtë
accusative çifçiun
dative çifçiu çifçiut çifçinjve çifçinjve
ablative çifçinjsh

References

  1. ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çifçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 111

Further reading

  • “çifçi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “çifçi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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