bajraktar

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بیراقدار (bayrakdar).

Noun

bajraktar m (plural bajraktarë, definite bajraktari, definite plural bajraktarët)

1. (archaic) standard-bearer

   Synonym: flamurtar

2. chief of the bajrak: chieftain; administrator of the patriarchal laws of the bajrak

Related terms

• bajrak

References

• Bardhi, Frang (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 183: “vexillarius — alfier, bairachtaar”
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “bajraktar”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 59–60
• Newmark, L. (1999) “bajraktar”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎^[1]