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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شادروان (şadırvan).
Pronunciation
Noun
shatërvan m (plural shatërvanë)
- jet, spout, spurt (esp. of water)
- Synonym: curril
- fountain (ornamental), jet d'eau
References
- “shatërván,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1821a
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shatërvan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 443
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “shatravan”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 469b
- Jungg, G. (1895) “scatervan”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 125b