carac

English

Noun

carac (plural caracs)

1. Alternative form of carrack

Anagrams

• Accra, Racca, accra

Albanian

Alternative forms

• caracë

Etymology

Perhaps from car- (“sting”) +‎ -ac. Compare carangth (“Cirsium arvense”) and acar (“frost”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡saˈɾat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s

Noun

carac m (plural caracë, definite caraci, definite plural caracët)

1. European nettle tree (Celtis australis)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:carac

Derived terms

• carac i vogël
• carac perëndimor

 

References

• “carác,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 214a
• Lloshi, Xhevat (2010) “caraci”, in Fjalor i emrave të bimëve dhe të kafshëve shqip–latinisht dhe latinisht–shqip (in Albanian), Skopje, Pristina, Tirana: Logos-A, →ISBN, page 54a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “carac”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 46b
• Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “carac”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 45