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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چفتلك (çiftlik).
Pronunciation
Noun
çiflig m (plural çifligje, definite çifligu) (now historical)
- manor, estate
- drejtoj një çiflig ― run a manor
- manor house
Derived terms
References
- “çiflí/g,~gu”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language], 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