thak

See also: þak and tha̍k

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Masculine doublet of thekë; from Proto-Albanian *tsaka, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱokh₂o- (“branch”) (compare Lithuanian šakà, Serbo-Croatian soha).[1]

Noun

thak m (plural thakë, definite thaku, definite plural thakët)

  1. (North Gheg) tuft, tassel
  2. (North Gheg) awn, beard (of grain)
  3. (North Gheg) stamen

References
  1. Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 393-4

Romani
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Noun

thak f (nominative plural thaka)

  1. Alternative form of khak[1][2]

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “thak”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 285b
  2. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e thak¹#³”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 361b
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