karabatak

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Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”).

Pronunciation

Noun

karabatak m (archaic)

  1. grebe, dabchick
    Synonyms: zhytës, kredharak

References

  • Meyer, G. (1891) “kará”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 176f.
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*karabatak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 250

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak). By surface analysis, kara (“black”) +‎ batak (“swamp”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈɾa.ba.tak/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧ba‧tak

Noun

karabatak (definite accusative karabatağı, plural karabataklar)

  1. (zoology) cormorant (bird of the genus Phalacrocorax)
  2. (colloquial) someone who does not repay their debts

Declension

Declension of karabatak
singular plural
nominative karabatak karabataklar
definite accusative karabatağı karabatakları
dative karabatağa karabataklara
locative karabatakta karabataklarda
ablative karabataktan karabataklardan
genitive karabatağın karabatakların

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