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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
karabatak m (archaic)
- 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