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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian пля́чка (pljáčka), Serbo-Croatian pljȁčka／пља̏чка.
Pronunciation
Noun
plaçkë f (plural plaçka)
- (chiefly in the plural) item of household goods and furniture
- Synonym: tesha pl
- piece of cloth, fabric used to make clothes
- Synonyms: stof, cohë, pëlhurë
- dress, garment made of fabric; robe
- Synonym: veshje
- loot, plunder, booty
- Synonym: pre
- plaçka e luftës ― spoils of war
- (colloquial) whatshisname, thingamabob (person of thing the speaker does not remember the name of)
- chip, sliver; speck, bit
- Synonyms: ashkël, grimcë, lëmishte
- weed (unwanted plant); briar, thorn
- Synonyms: barishte; ferrë, drizë
- (colloquial) entrails, guts
- Synonyms: rropulli, përbrendshme
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pláçk/ë~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1495a
- Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “plaçkë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350), volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 195a
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “plaçkë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 389b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “pľakós”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 334