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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شرانپول (şaranpol, “stockade”). For the variant sharapof compare Ottoman Turkish շարամփօվ (şarampov), Serbo-Croatian šaràmpōv／шара̀мпо̄в.
Pronunciation
Noun
sharapoll m (plural sharapolle)
- oriel used for defence
- watchtower
- Synonym: kullë roje
- (archaic) fortification (in general)
- Synonym: fortifikatë
References
- “sharapóll,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1818b
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “sharapoll”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 442
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shar […] -apoll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 468b
- Meyer, G. (1891) “šarapół”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 400