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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish گردك (gerdek).[1][2][3]
Noun
gjerdek m
- bridechamber
- wedding night
Descendants
References
- ^ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “gjerdek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 172
- ^ Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “džerdéci”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 83
- ^ Franz Ritter von Miklosich (1884) Die türkischen Elemente in den südost- und osteuropäischen Sprachen (in German), page 13: “alb. gjerdek”
Further reading
- “gjerdek”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006