çifçi

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dialectal Ottoman Turkish چفتجی (çiftçi).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃifˈt͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -t͡ʃi
  • Hyphenation: çif‧çí

Noun

çifçi m (plural çifçinj, definite çifçiu, definite plural çifçinjtë)

  1. (historical) sharecropper, tenant farmer, serf (mostly under the feudal system)
    Synonyms: pendar, çifligar, bujkrob

Declension
Declension of çifçi
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative çifçi çifçinj çifçiu çifçinjtë
accusative çifçiun
dative çifçiu çifçinjve çifçiut çifçinjvet
ablative çifçinjsh

References
  1. Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çifçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 111

Further reading
  • “çifçi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “çifçi”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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