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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصاتوره (kasatura). Possibly contaminated by kaca- and turrë.
Pronunciation
Noun
kacaturrë f (plural kacaturra) (archaic)
- a kind of double-edged dagger
- Near-synonym: kamë
- bayonet
- Synonyms: bajonetë, syngji
References
- “kacatúrr/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 755a
- Krimpas, P. G. (2021) “On the Modern Greek Origin of the Albanian KACA-prefixoids”, in Porta Balkanica, →ISSN, page 9
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “kacatúr”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 172a