shatërvan

Albanian

Alternative forms

• shatravan, shatrivan, shatrëvan — dialectal

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شادروان (şadırvan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃatəɾˈvan/
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

shatërvan m (plural shatërvanë)

1. jet, spout, spurt (esp. of water)

   Synonym: curril

2. fountain (ornamental), jet d'eau

References

• “shatërván,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 1821a
• Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “shatërvan”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 443
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “shatravan”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 469b
• Jungg, G. (1895) “scatervan”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 125b