karabatak

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قره باتاق (kara batak, “cormorant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾabaˈtak/
• Rhymes: -ak

Noun

karabatak m (archaic)

1. grebe, dabchick

   Synonyms: zhytës, kredharak

Related terms

• kara

 

References

• Meyer, G. (1891) “kará”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 176f.
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*karabatak”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 250