shatërvan

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • shatravan, shatrivan, shatrëvan — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شادروان (şadırvan).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃatəɾˈvan/
  • Rhymes: -an

Noun

shatërvan m (plural shatërvanë)

  1. jet, spout, spurt (esp. of water)
    Synonym: curril
  2. 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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.