çarçaf

Albanian

Alternative forms

• çarshaf, çerçaf — dialectal
• carcaf — Calabria

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چارشف (çarşaf).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaɾˈt͡ʃaf/
• Rhymes: -af

Noun

çarçaf m (plural çarçafë)

1. sheet, bedsheet
2. niqab (veil of Muslim women)
3. shroud, winding cloth

   Synonym: qefin

   1. (Christianity) the Holy Shroud
4. (vulgar, derogatory) very long text

References

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980, page 245b
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “çarçaf”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 102
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “çar […] -çaf”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 55b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “tšartšáf”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 445
• Rossi, F. (1875) “ciarciàf”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 144b