Lake Skadar

English

Etymology

Calque of Serbo-Croatian Skadarsko jezero, Скадарско језеро, from Skadar, Скадар + -sko, -ско + jȅzero, је̏зеро (“lake”).

The northwestern Albanian city of Shkodër (Skadar) sits at the lake's southeastern end and gives its name to the lake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leɪk ˈskɑːdɑː(ɹ)/

Proper noun

Lake Skadar

1. The largest lake in the Balkans, located in the west of the peninsula on the border of Albania and Montenegro between the mountain of Rumija (and further aback the Adriatic Sea) to the southwest and marshland (and further aback the Prokletije) to the northeast.

Synonyms

• Lake Shkodër
• Lake Scutari
• Lake Shkodra

Translations

largest lake in the Balkans

• Albanian: Liqeni i Shkodrës m (definite)
• Arabic: بُحَيْرَة سْكِيُوتَارِي (buḥayra(t) skiyūtārī)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斯庫台湖 (Sīkùtáihú)

• German: Skutarisee m, Shkodrasee m, Skadarsee m
• Greek: Λίμνη Σκόδρας f (Límni Skódras)
• Italian: Lago di Scutari m
• Korean: 슈코더르호 (syukodeoreuho), 스카다르호 (seukadareuho)
• Russian: Шко́дер (ru) m (Škóder), Скада́рское о́зеро (ru) n (Skadárskoje ózero)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Скадарско језеро n

  Roman: Skadarsko jezero n