çerek

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • çereqe f — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیرك (çeyrek),[1][2][3] through the dialectal variant çerek.[3][4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈɾek/
  • Rhymes: -ek

Noun

çerek m (plural çerekë)

  1. quarter, fourth, 1⁄4
  2. (archaic) Synonym of çerekje

Derived terms

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891) “tšereḱe”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 446
  2. Topalli, K. (2017) “çerek”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 335
  3. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çerek”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 108
  4. Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “çerek2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 937

Further reading
  • “çerek”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 255
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