plaçkë

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from South Slavic, compare Bulgarian пля́чка (pljáčka), Serbo-Croatian pljȁčka / пља̏чка.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplat͡ʃkə/
• Rhymes: -at͡ʃkə

Noun

plaçkë f (plural plaçka)

1. (chiefly in the plural) item of household goods and furniture

   Synonym: tesha pl

2. piece of cloth, fabric used to make clothes

   Synonyms: stof, cohë, pëlhurë

3. dress, garment made of fabric; robe

   Synonym: veshje

4. loot, plunder, booty

   Synonym: pre

   plaçka e luftës ― spoils of war

5. (colloquial) whatshisname, thingamabob (person of thing the speaker does not remember the name of)
6. chip, sliver; speck, bit

   Synonyms: ashkël, grimcë, lëmishte

7. weed (unwanted plant); briar, thorn

   Synonyms: barishte; ferrë, drizë

8. (colloquial) entrails, guts

   Synonyms: rropulli, përbrendshme

Derived terms

• plaçka e maçka
• plaçkadit
• plaçkatar
• plaçkë e raçkë
• plaçkëroj
• plaçkit
• plaçkoj
• plaçkurina

 

Related terms

• pllakos

 

Descendants

• → Greek: πλιάτσικο (pliátsiko)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پلاچقه (plaçka)
  • Turkish: plaçka

References

• “pláçk/ë~a”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1495a
• Ylli, Xhelal (1997) “plaçkë”, in Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen (Slavistische Beiträge; 350)‎^[2], volume 1. Lehnwörter, Munich: Otto Sagner, page 195a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “plaçkë”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 389b
• Meyer, G. (1891) “pľakós”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 334