kacaturrë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• kacatur m, kacaturre f, kasaturrë f — dialectal
• kacaturr f — Gheg

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قصاتوره (kasatura). Possibly contaminated by kaca- and turrë.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat͡saˈturə/
• Rhymes: -urə

Noun

kacaturrë f (plural kacaturra) (archaic)

1. a kind of double-edged dagger

   Near-synonym: kamë

2. bayonet

   Synonyms: bajonetë, syngji

References

• “kacatúrr/ë,~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 755a
• Krimpas, P. G. (2021) “On the Modern Greek Origin of the Albanian KACA-prefixoids”, in Porta Balkanica, →ISSN, page 9
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “kacatúr”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 172a