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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نفقه (nafaka).
Pronunciation
Noun
nafakë f (definite nafaka) (colloquial)
- luck, fortune
- Synonyms: fat, mbarësi, baft
- me nafakë ― luckily
- nafakë e keqe, nafakë e zezë ― bad luck
- nafakë e mirë ― good luck
Derived terms
Adjective
i nafakë (archaic)
- lucky
- Synonym: fatmirë
References
- “nafak/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1195f.
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “nafaka”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 327
- Jungg, G. (1895) “nafak”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 86a
- Meyer, G. (1891) “nafák”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 296
- Rossi, F. (1875) “nafàk”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 861ab