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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قطیفه (katife, kadife).
Pronunciation
Noun
kadife f (plural kadife, definite kadifeja or kadifja)
- velvet
Derived terms
Adjective
kadife
- velvety: soft and smooth
- Synonym: i kadifenjtë
References
- “kadifé,~ja”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 757b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “kadife”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 237
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “kadifé”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 173b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “kadifé”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 165
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قطیفه (kadife, katife), from Arabic قَطِيفَة (qaṭīfa). Doublet of kadayıf.
Pronunciation
Noun
kadife (definite accusative kadifeyi, plural kadifeler)
- velvet