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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بیراقدار (bayrakdar).
Noun
bajraktar m (plural bajraktarë, definite bajraktari, definite plural bajraktarët)
- (archaic) standard-bearer
- Synonym: flamurtar
- chief of the bajrak: chieftain; administrator of the patriarchal laws of the bajrak
References
- Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 183: “vexillarius — alfier, bairachtaar”
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bajraktar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 59–60
- Newmark, L. (1999) “bajraktar”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary