karabatak

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaɾabaˈtak/
  • Rhymes: -ak

Noun

karabatak m (archaic)

  1. grebe, dabchick
    Synonyms: zhytës, kredharak

References
  • Meyer, G. (1891) “kará”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 176f.
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*karabatak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 250
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