çakall

Albanian

Alternative forms

• çakan
• çikall

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چقال (çakal), from Persian شغال (šağâl), ultimately from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃaˈkaɫ/

Noun

çakall m (plural çakaj, definite çakalli, definite plural çakajt)

1. (zoology) jackal
2. (figurative, derogatory) rogue, scoundrel; blood-sucking or insatiable man
3. (Tosk) dragon

Declension

Declension of çakall

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	çakall	çakalli	çakaj	çakajt
accusative		çakallin
dative	çakalli	çakallit	çakajve	çakajve
ablative			çakajsh

References

• “çakall”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çakall”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 98
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “çakáll”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 54