tarabë

Albanian

Etymology

From dialectal Turkish taraba (“wooden fence; shop-front shutter”), itself from North Levantine Arabic دَرَّابَة (darrābe, “a kind of shop-front shutter”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /taˈɾabə/
  • Rhymes: -abə

Noun

tarabë f (plural taraba, definite taraba, definite plural tarabat)

  1. wooden shutter (for stores or houses)
    Synonym: qepen
  2. wooden wall as part of a military assault course

Declension
Declension of tarabë
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative tarabë taraba taraba tarabat
accusative tarabën
dative tarabe tarabave tarabës tarabavet
ablative tarabash

References
  • “tarabë”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “tarabë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “taraba”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 461
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