tarabë
Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal Turkish taraba (“wooden fence; shop-front shutter”), itself from North Levantine Arabic دَرَّابَة (darrābe, “a kind of shop-front shutter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tarabë f (plural taraba, definite taraba, definite plural tarabat)
- wooden shutter (for stores or houses)
- Synonym: qepen
- wooden wall as part of a military assault course
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tarabë | taraba | taraba | tarabat |
| accusative | tarabën | |||
| dative | tarabeje | tarabës | tarabave | tarabave |
| ablative | tarabash | |||
References
[edit]- FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1], 1980
- “tarabë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “taraba”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 461